2019 – Page 100 – Americana UK

Interview: Pete Gow – “Up close and very personal…”

September 18, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Pete Gow, front man for the late Case Hardin, one of the UK’s foremost hard rocking Americana styled bands, surprised a lot of folk when he released his first solo album, ‘Here There’s No Sirens’ back […]

John Paul White + Ciaran Lavery, Islington Assembly Hall, London, 5th September 2019

September 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Appropriately enough, ‘Ol’ 55′ was playing on the intro’ tape as John Paul White prepared to take the the stage at a near- full Islington Assembly Hall, unusually set in an all seated configuration. ‘The Hurting […]

Ryan Traster “Choses Obscures” (Independent, 2019)

September 18, 2019 Mark Nenadic 0

Minneapolis based Ryan Traster plies his trade with a super laid back, woozy, indie, country-pop sound. On ‘Choses Obscures’ (French for ‘unusual things’) you can hear the ghost of Tom Petty nodding sagely as the tunes […]

Great Peacock “Miss You Honey” – Listen

September 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

Great Peacock are a Nashville band who’s Southern Rock has attracted the attention of Rolling Stone who last year noted them as a New Country Act You Should Know. And who are we to argue with […]

Video Premiere: Sarah Gerritsen “Don’t Fear The Healer”

September 18, 2019 Jeremy Searle 2

This is an impressive and powerful, directed by Sarah Hanner, for a great song by Seattle singer-songwriter Sarah Gerritsen about sickness and healing. It’s from her latest album ‘Coyote’, which was written as a tribute to her […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2019