2019 – Page 303 – Americana UK

Jess Klein “Back To My Green” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)

February 12, 2019 Tim Merricks 1

Just as the generations have always offered up explosions of outstanding peer collectives down the ages, so it seems that lately there has been an outbreak of gifted female americana singer-songwriters. Not that Jess Klein is […]

Black Deer adds Case, Kristofferson and Earle (Justin Townes) to 2019 line-up

February 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Oh crikey, this is looking like it’s going to be an event and a half. What’s probably turning into the UK’s biggest americana and country music festival has just announced some more names to its line-up […]

Mavis Staples “Live In London” (Anti-, 2019)

February 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

At the age of 79 it would be perfectly understandable if Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Americana Grammy Award Winner and overall musical legend Mavis Staples were to make a move towards taking it easy, […]

AmericanA to Z – The Delmore Brothers

February 12, 2019 Mark Nenadic 0

Before Americana, before Outlaw Country, before Nashville even; there was Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and importantly The Delmore Brothers. From a dirt poor Alabama farming family, these boys fused blues, folk and gospel to create […]

Track Premiere – Smith Allen “Pouring Rain”

February 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

If you like your music drenched in pedal steel and with a singer with a warm vocal, then you’re going to like Smith Allen. If you like your backup vocals performed by Miranda Lee Richards then […]