2019 – Page 135 – Americana UK

The Moon Shells “Seaside Asylum” (Casa de Agua, 2019)

August 13, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

There’s just something special about the combination of fiddle and banjo. When they’re working at the height of their combined powers, they’re able to summon up memories that aren’t even our own. They speak from all […]

Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, 1st-4th August 2019

August 13, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Now in its 55th year, an impressive achievement in itself, Cambridge Folk Festival continues to go from strength to strength and this year’s event was one of the best. At the top of the bill there […]

Birds of Chicago set to tour through the Brexit deadline

August 13, 2019 Mark Underwood 2

The last release by Birds of Chicago ‘Love In Wartime’ may prove to be a prescient title before too long given reports from the UK food industry that in the event of a no-deal Brexit the […]

Dusty Wright “Book Of Tears” – Listen

August 13, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Dusty Wright is a New York based folk/Americana singer-songwriter, and ‘Book of Tears‘ is taken from his eighth album ‘Can Anyone Hear Me?‘ On the music scene since the ’80s, he’s played CBGB’s, of course, and […]

Video: The Bobby Tenderloin Universe “Sandpaper One Side, Rubber On The Other”

August 13, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

This is a wonderful eerie and not a little disturbing video. The song is taken from Bobby Tenderloin’s eponymous debut album which is out in the autumn. It’s gritty, slightly psychedelic, and a little opaque lyrically, […]