April 2020 – Page 26 – Americana UK

Video Premiere: Love Me in the Dark “Circle Up the Wagons”

April 14, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

It will be no surprise to anyone who knows Love Me in the Dark’s music that the couple’s vocal melodies and harmonies on ‘Circle Up the Wagons’ are beautiful. Five years ago, Steve McCormick and Heather […]

Waco Brothers “Resist!” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

Cash meets Clash! The Waco Brothers, a mash up of Jon Langford’s punk sensibilities and cowpunk twang, are probably the only band still around who merit the term “Insurgent Country,” a trademark on which Bloodshot Records […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: James McMurtry “Childish Things”

April 14, 2020 Steven Rafferty 1

The most obvious connection between last week’s ‘The Town That Killed Kennedy‘ by Otis Gibbs and this week’s link in the chain is the view of the world that one gets through the window of a […]

Sturgill Simpson tests positive for Covid-19

April 14, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Sturgill Simpson has announced in a lengthy Instagram post that he has tested positive for COVID-19, writing that he received the diagnosis on Friday after almost a month of not exhibiting symptoms. Simpson describes his frustration […]

Liv Greene “Every Bright Penny” (Independent, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

Boston, Massachusetts is the current home of singer-songwriter, Liv Greene, where she is an active member of the city’s musical community. Greene has performed regularly at Club Passim, a non-profit folk venue and school of music […]