2019 – Page 48 – Americana UK

Video: Sam Weber “Everything Comes True”

November 7, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1

This is rather good from Canadian singer-songwriter Sam Weber. It’s the title track of his new album, out on January 10th, and also out as a single now. A thoughtful and reflective song, it’s a quietly […]

Karen & The Sorrows “Guaranteed Broken Heart” (Ocean Born Mary Music, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

One of the music industry’s most time-honoured clichés is that an artist’s third album represents a critical creative crossroads – even way back in the 1980s, Essex folk singer Billy Bragg wryly subtitled his immortal […]

Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings “Rose In June” (Hudson Records, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Tim Martin 0

Jon Boden is best known as the leader of English folk band Bellowhead. This new album, his fourth solo work, is more diverse in sound and feel than his former group, despite relying at least partly on […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Monkey Swallows the Universe “Ballad of the Breakneck Bride”

November 6, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Like the HBO of music, pretty much everything the Loose label release is a guarantee of quality (with slightly less full-frontal nudity), and 2007’s ‘The Casket Letters’ by Sheffield based acoustic/indie band Monkey Swallows the Universe […]

Tyler Ramsey + Alexander Carson, Bush Hall, London, 30th October 2019

November 6, 2019 Martin Fisher 2

Slightly bedraggled in appearance, holes and scuffs in the plaid shirt, Tyler Ramsey takes to the stage with minimal fuss. Seats himself, taking a while to tune his acoustic before intricately picking harmonics for the instrumental […]