2019 – Page 162 – Americana UK

Various Artists “The Rough Guide To Country Blues (Reborn and Remastered)” (World Music Network, 2019)

July 15, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0

This is an album that does exactly what it says on the tin. The exquisite notes that accompany this comprehensive study of country blues do much to set its place within the history of popular music […]

Norman Salant “Always All Around You” (Northcove, 2019)

July 15, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0

Norman Salant, the saxophonist and composer, has re-invented himself as a singer-songwriter, finding a fresh sense of creative freedom in the lyrical, verbal expressions on ‘Always All Around You’. Here are ten pop-folk songs that are […]

Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow cover Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken” – Listen

July 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Sheryl Crow has covered Bob Dylan songs in the past such as ‘Mississippi’ and ‘Tombstone Blues’, and she keeps up that tradition on her forthcoming ‘Threads’ album, due next month, where she covers Dylan’s ‘Everything Is […]

M.Cambridge “The Fisherman’s Wife” – Listen

July 15, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

‘The Fisherman’s Wife’ is a Ewan MacColl song that captures the lonely on-shore life of those who married Herring fishers, it comes from his BBC recording ‘Singing the Fishing’, from 1960. And why, one has to ask, […]

Video: The Brother Brothers with Sara Jarosz “Colorado”

July 15, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

From their debut album ‘Some People I Know’ comes this lovely delicate song from The Brother Brothers with Sara Jarosz adding subtle harmonies and picking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_6NxJaSaU&feature=youtu.be

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

July 2, 2026 0

Amy Speace is a long-standing favourite of Americana UK, her most recent album, The Blue Rock Session, appearing late in 2025, a stripped-back collection on acoustic guitar and piano, recorded at a writing retreat in Wimberley, […]

Year: 2019

Various Artists “The Rough Guide To Country Blues (Reborn and Remastered)” (World Music Network, 2019)

Norman Salant “Always All Around You” (Northcove, 2019)

Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow cover Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken” – Listen

M.Cambridge “The Fisherman’s Wife” – Listen

Video: The Brother Brothers with Sara Jarosz “Colorado”

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”

Billy Strings to release latest album “So Much For Goodbyes” on 28th August