2019 – Page 324 – Americana UK

The Bills “Trail of Tales” (Borealis, 2016)

January 18, 2019 Muff Fitzgerald 0

Five days before his death from typhoid fever and the final tertiary stage of syphilis in November 1828, Franz Schubert requested that a friend, Karl Holz, bring his string quartet to his deathbed and play for […]

Nicole Atkins announces UK tour for April

January 18, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

So yet again it’s the weekend dear reader, just in time for the most miserable day of the year. Cheer yourself up with news that Nashville crooner Nicole Atkins, who recently toured the UK with Mercury Rev, will […]

Bob Sumner “Wasted Love Songs” (Independent, 2019)

January 18, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0

Bob Sumner is used to rocking out with his brother as one half of the Sumner Brothers, but this debut solo release finds him in a more reflective mood. The folk-based Americana of ‘Wasted Love Songs’ […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Tracy Chapman “Talking About A Revolution”

January 18, 2019 Paul Villers 0

This week sees the one-hundredth anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg (and her political ally and co-founder of the anti-war Spartakusbund Karl Liebknecht). Luxemburg was Polish by birth but became a naturalised German citizen. She […]

Josh Okeefe, Water Rats, London, 10th January 2019

January 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

The Water Rats was hosting the roving folk club that is Folk on Monday (yes, this was a Thursday). It’s a venue that is also particularly appropriate seeing as its former incarnation,’The Pindar of Wakefield,’ was […]