2019 – Page 90 – Americana UK

Black Sea Dahu “How You Swallowed Your Anger” – Listen

September 27, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Black Sea Dahu’s Janine Cathrein, the Swiss songwriter, found herself musing after two failed relationships that there was nothing left for her on land – this thought went swimming through her brain whilst surfing. Desperate thoughts […]

Will Beeley “Heartattacks & Highways” (Tompkins Square, 2019)

September 27, 2019 Emily Dongray 0

Texan trucker Will Beeley proffers his overdue follow up to his 1979 drifter ballad album. This album is as slow and considered as the big horizons and roads upon which it was written. Almost forty years […]

Video Premiere: Dan Israel “Be My Girl”

September 27, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

From his new album ‘Social Media Anxiety Disorder‘, out on October 11th, this is a great driving piece of power-pop from Minnesota singer-songwriter Dan Israel. A brilliant way to start the weekend.

Hoth Brothers “Workin’ and Dreamin’” (Independent, 2019)

September 26, 2019 Mark Nenadic 0

When you harness the old mountain sounds of roots music (banjo, fiddle, mandolin etc.), it better be underpinned by some really good songs, or have something really worthwhile to say. Otherwise your offerings are little more […]

The Blue Highways “He Worked EP” (Independent, 2019)

September 26, 2019 Guy Lincoln 0

Brothers in bands huh? Often fraught, sometimes fragile and rarely friendly. It can end badly but there is also the potential for genuine magic, which can seem harder for sibling-free groups to reach. The Blue Highways […]