2019 – Page 240 – Americana UK

Great American Trainwreck “Hell On The Rise” – Listen

April 23, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Great American Trainwreck are a five piece band operating out of Seattle who have been playing for a couple of years, time enough to get their eponymous debut album together – it’s out on May 23rd. […]

Video: Ordinary Elephant: “Jenny & James”

April 23, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Another track from the great Ordinary Elephant, taken from their forthcoming album “Honest”, out on May 3rd. It’s an ultimately triumphant love story about interracial love and is quite beautiful.

Happy Easter from Americana UK

April 19, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re taking a break until Tuesday next week to celebrate the ascension of the Easter bunny into heaven. Don’t forget ‘Three Chords and the Truth’ the Woody Guthrie documentary which shows on BBC4 tomorrow night at […]

Video Premiere: Anton & The Colts “My Favourite Song”

April 19, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Now this is rather good from Glasgow’s Anton & The Colts. It’s the new single from their album “No End Of The Line”, out now and has real heart and soul. Nice video too. Anton is […]

Danny Schmidt announces UK dates for May

April 18, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Austin, Texas-based folk-Americana singer-songwriter Danny Schmidt has announced details of a UK tour next month in support of his new album ‘Standard Deviation’ which we described as a collection of “songs of the troubadour, the worldly-wise […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2019