Features
What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?
Welcome back to our occasional series in which we ask the Americana UK staff writers and contributors to give us a handle on the what, whys and wherefores that got them into the genre and why […]
Year: 2019
Album Reviews
Big Jim Brown and the Speedkings “Devil On The Other Shoulder” (Independent, 2019)
The Speedkings are whomever Jim Brown is playing with, so this latest release doesn’t have much of a common line-up with 2016’s ‘After All, it’s Been Forever‘ and on any given night his live band is […]
Tracks
Sara Rachele “Goodbye, Goodbye” – Listen
Sara Rachele’s new album ‘Scorpio Moon‘ is out at the end of May. Unusually it was recorded straight to tape. Even more unusually it features Binky Griptite and other members of The Dap-Kings (who you’ll recall […]
Album Reviews
True Strays “Homeward Bound” EP (Fieldview Records, 2019)
There’s no doubt True Strays can rock out. The drums pound. The cymbals crash. The guitars crunch and slide and the bass bellows below it all. Their latest EP, ‘Homeward Bound’ kicks off with the hard […]
Videos
Video: Deep Dark River “Starfire”
The first single from their new album “King Of The Forest”, out on June 21st, is this wonderfully mournful song from Canadian outfit Deep Dark River. Very good indeed.