2019 – Page 282 – Americana UK

Jared Henry “Running Wild” (Venison Records, 2018)

March 6, 2019 Graham McCusker 0

‘Running Wild’ is the debut album from Arkansas singer-songwriter Jared Henry – a collection of sun-soaked mellow acoustic jams, which evoke Jack Johnson at his most breezy. The result is a record which fails to inspire. […]

Steve Earle, Emmylou and Crowell “Old Friends” – Listen

March 6, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

For the last few weeks, we’ve been covering the forthcoming Guy Clark covers album which Steve Earle and his Dukes will be releasing at the end of this month, and today we come to Clark’s 1988 […]

Wanderingted “I Could Be You” (Independent, 2018)

March 6, 2019 Scott Baxter 0

Wanderingted is both the alias of the singer-songwriter Ted Schmitz and the clue to what he sounds like. His debut album ‘I Could Be You’ is a folk-rock journey to a new place somewhere between Saint […]

AmericanA to Z – Nanci Griffith

March 6, 2019 Elise Kennedy 2

With twenty albums under her belt Nanci Griffith is by no means an unknown artist; singing what she classes a folkabilly, she writes with a confessional style, and with her voice, which is made for folk […]

Robert Forster “Inferno” (Tapete Records, 2019)

March 6, 2019 Diccon Johnston 0

It has been four years since Robert Forster released ‘Songs to Play’ and he has, as ever, taken “time to do my thing”. This has resulted in an album that is constrained in style yet expansive […]