June 2019 – Page 11 – Americana UK

Topic Records 80th Birthday Party, The Barbican, London, 7th June 2019

June 19, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

At 80 years of age Topic Records is the world’s oldest Independent Record label – and if it hasn’t been called Topic for the whole of that time there is at least a good continuity all […]

Forty Elephant Gang “Next Time Round” (Independent, 2019)

June 19, 2019 Russell Murphy 0

Naming your popular beat combo after a vicious gang of 19th-century thieves and robbers from South London – and female at that – may seem an interesting choice for an Alt-folk (their description) band from East […]

Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes “The Road” – Listen

June 19, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

You may feel that you’ve heard every song about life on the road, that there’s nothing more to hear. Well, there are a lot of songs about the touring life but Australia’s Lachlan Bryan brings enough […]

Rich Layton & Tough Town “Salvation Road” (Never Lucky Records, 2019)

June 19, 2019 Mark Johnson 0

On the original road to salvation, St. Paul suggests that the wages of sin are death. Rich Layton has avoided that outcome in a lifetime in the rock’n’roll trenches, but has taken a few knocks along […]

Video: Steve Poltz “Ballin’ On A Wednesday!”

June 19, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

A hymn to having a good time in the middle of the week (something we can all get behind), this is from Nashville man Steve Poltz’s latest album ‘Shine On’, out now.