August 2019 – Page 2 – Americana UK

Pick of the political pops: Steve Earle “John Walker’s Blues”

August 30, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

In a week where it seems like there’s almost nothing new under the sun to say about Brexit that hasn’t been said a million times over, in today’s Pops we cast our minds back to the […]

Stuart Smith “The Sun EP” (Independent, 2019)

August 30, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

Stepping into 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, not to take a tour but to actually record your own songs, takes a special kind of nerve. Yet as Stuart Smith points out on his website, “There’s […]

Justin Roeland “Desolation” – Listen

August 30, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

On ‘Desolation‘, taken from his most recent album ‘Doomed to bloom‘, Justin Roeland mixes Byrdsian jangle-rock with a fuzzed and phased up dream-like sensibility. The song is imbued with the inevitability of change and development – […]

Video Premiere: Leroy from The North “Hey Man”

August 30, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Now here’s a great video, directed by Kathy Gardiner, to accompany a proper piece of country thrash from Eli Wulfmeier aka Leroy From The North. It’s from his EP ‘Health And Fitness‘, out now. Give it […]

John Paul White returns to the UK for dates next week

August 29, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Grammy Award winner and ex-Civil War-er (er..) John Paul White released his new solo album ‘The Hurting Kind’ earlier this year via Single Lock Records. Our reviewer kind of said “meh” to it but he may […]