July 2019 – Page 7 – Americana UK

Old Crow Medicine Show to release live album

July 24, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Old Crow Medicine Show are one of those bands who’ve played the Ryman auditorium so often these days that it might as well be renamed after them, but in the meantime the Grammy-winning roots band will […]

Harrison Whitford “Afraid Of Everything” (Screwdriver Records, 2019)

July 24, 2019 Harold Hogan 0

The opening track of singer-songwriter Harrison Whitford’s latest album starts off with some gentle strumming and tender, vulnerable vocal work. So far so average. Then the drums kick in, along with backing vocals, the fuzzy electric, […]

Rock Island Line 65th Anniversary, Cadogan Hall, London, 13th July 2019

July 24, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s no real reason why in the mid-1950s a form of music already more or less forgotten in its homeland should have got a revival in the UK. Yet the short-lived Skiffle craze – a wild […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Snowglobe “Seems Like”

July 24, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The one year I made it to SXSW back in 2008, I saw a certain fairly large band from Athens, Georgia, and then saw a not so well known one who went by the name of […]

Richard Thompson announces guest list for his 70th. And it’s mega.

July 24, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Richard Thompson’s 70th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall in September sold out in next to no time, and if you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to nab a ticket you’re in for […]