March 2020 – Page 31 – Americana UK

Video: Villages “Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)”

March 9, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Villages have never covered another artist’s work before now but they were drawn to this wonderful Lou Reed song. It became a staple of their live set and, gradually, they claimed it as their own. Friend […]

The Milk Carton Kids with Josh Ritter “Losing Battles”

March 6, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a song that actually came out a few months ago but has been re-released today in an acoustic format on Spotify, and since Spotify is uber-irritating to embed […]

American Aquarium return with new album “Lamentations”

March 6, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

American Aquarium have announced the release of a new album ‘Lamentations’ which is due out on New West Records on May 1st, and have released the first track off it ‘Long Haul’, which you can hear […]

Classic Americana Albums: Green on Red “Gas Food Lodging” (Zippo Records, 1985)

March 6, 2020 Clint West 1

‘Desert Rock’, ‘Paisley Underground’, Alternative Country-Rock’, ‘Garage-Country’ and ‘Country-Punk’ are all descriptions that have, at various times, been applied to Green on Red. The fact that these and plenty more descriptions can be found with a […]

Video Premiere: Phil Gammage “Hellcat Maggie”

March 6, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Taken from Phil Gammage’s eighth solo album, ‘It’s all Real Good’, this song tells the tale of the legendary 19th century New Yorker, Hellcat Maggie. It begins with an atmospheric strum and features Gammage’s sonorous vocal […]