July 2019 – Page 17 – Americana UK

Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow cover Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken” – Listen

July 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Sheryl Crow has covered Bob Dylan songs in the past such as ‘Mississippi’ and ‘Tombstone Blues’, and she keeps up that tradition on her forthcoming ‘Threads’ album, due next month, where she covers Dylan’s ‘Everything Is […]

M.Cambridge “The Fisherman’s Wife” – Listen

July 15, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

‘The Fisherman’s Wife’ is a Ewan MacColl song that captures the lonely on-shore life of those who married Herring fishers, it comes from his BBC recording ‘Singing the Fishing’, from 1960. And why, one has to ask, […]

Video: The Brother Brothers with Sara Jarosz “Colorado”

July 15, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

From their debut album ‘Some People I Know’ comes this lovely delicate song from The Brother Brothers with Sara Jarosz adding subtle harmonies and picking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_6NxJaSaU&feature=youtu.be

Josh Rouse “I Miss You” – Listen

July 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a surprise new single from Josh Rouse who describes this as a tune “In time for your summer playlist… a new single. I Miss You is the first […]

Jesse Dayton “Mix Tape Volume 1” (Blue Elan Records, 2019)

July 12, 2019 Tim Martin 0

Jesse Dayton’s formative musical experience was apparently seeing The Clash supported by Joe Ely, and the spirit of both those artists is all over Dayton’s new album. Collections of covers can be tricky to manage, needing […]

Seasick Steve “Bootstraps” – won’t lift ya’ no more

August 11, 2026 0

What an idle fellow this Tracks Editor is – here’s him doing another “needs no introduction” song selection – the latest single from The Last Season of America, a new album of stirring protest songs and […]

Video Premiere: Kaz Murphy “Making Noise”

August 11, 2026 0

Although tuneful and easy on the ear with a conversational vocal style, make no mistake: Making Noise by SoCal folk singer Kaz Murphy is a song with anger at its heart. Murphy is apologetic, but silence […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 1

Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Month: July 2019