2019 – Page 118 – Americana UK

Israel Nash + Leslie Stevens, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 26th August 2019

August 30, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Coming to the end of a long series of tours promoting his latest album ‘Lifted’, Israel Nash and his road warriors are by now fully blooded and it showed tonight as they treated this audience to […]

Joe Pug “The Flood In Color” (Nation of Heat Records, 2019)

August 30, 2019 Tim Martin 0

In what is turning into a vintage year for quiet reflective music we now have Joe Pug’s new album ‘The Flood In Color‘. Don’t be fooled by the sleeve which looks like something from a 1970’s […]

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 – […]