April 2020 – Page 17 – Americana UK

Andy Brasher “Myna Bird” (Independent, 2020)

April 20, 2020 Linda Jameson 0

Andy Brasher brings country-soaked solo-album ‘Myna Bird’ to us from Kentucky via Nashville. It was produced by Harry Lee Smith (Restless Heart, Angeleena Presley, Martina McBride) and multi-Grammy award winner Ross Hogarth (Keb’ Mo’, Shawn Colvin, […]

New Frank Turner live album lands on Friday

April 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have announced the release of a new digital album ‘Live In Newcastle’ – Due out on April 24 via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor, the album was recorded during Turner & The Sleeping […]

Dean Owens “The Man From Leith: The Best Of Dean Owens” (Eel Pie Records, 2020)

April 20, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

Dean Owens is a story-teller, in musical form and from a grand Celtic tradition (a ‘blether’ perhaps?). The songs on his ‘Best Of’ collection ‘The Man from Leith’ give ample testament to this fact. Rather than […]

Bob Dylan reveals all at last

April 20, 2020 Jonathan Aird 13

Over sixty years Dylan has retained an air of being an enigma, his songs, indeed his whole life, seen by so many as puzzles to be unravelled. This writer has long cleaved to the heretical notion […]

Video: William Prince “That’s All I’ll Ever Become”

April 20, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

We start this week with the latest video from William Prince, who won a Juno Award for his debut album in 2018. ‘That’s All I’ll Ever Become’ is taken from the critically acclaimed ‘Reliever’, one of […]