2019 – Page 215 – Americana UK

Hayes Carll + Travis Linville, Deaf Institute, Manchester, 15th May 2019

May 22, 2019 Clint West 1

Hayes Carll is in a pretty good place right now. His new album ‘What It Is’ is a triumphant return to form following two releases which some considered somewhat flat. In addition, at the start of […]

Book Review: David Berman “Actual Air” (Drag City, 2019)

May 22, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

It seems poetry books are a bit like buses – you wait ages for one and then two come along at once! Following on from our recent review of Doug Hoekstra’s ‘Unopened’ we now have David […]

Ben Hemming “Dead Man Blues” – Listen

May 22, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Dead Man Blues‘ leads off Ben Hemming’s new album ‘The Devil Beside Me‘ which is released on May 31st. The song has a pulsing beat which adds an additional edge to Hemming’s unsettling growl of a […]

Video: Southbound Fred “Ballad of Grateful Fred”

May 22, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Here in Merseyside we have americana coming out of our ears, and part of its illustrious history is down to Barry Jones who fronts the Southbound Attic Band, one of Liverpool’s musical institutions. This cracking tune […]

Nick Lowe “Love Starvation/ Trombone” (Yep Roc Records, 2019)

May 21, 2019 Jim Finnie 0

He may be on the wrong side of 70 but Nick Lowe isn’t one for letting the grass grow underneath his feet and his latest EP is a case in point. It may only be four […]