April 2020 – Page 3 – Americana UK

Ultan Conlon “There’s a Waltz” (DarkSideOut Records, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

Conlon has employed an impressive roster of session musicians to create, ‘There’s a Waltz’ which was recorded at The Heritage Studios in Los Angeles; a long way from his native Galway. Predominant on most of the […]

The top ten Americana duets

April 29, 2020 Paul Villers 4

In these trying times we can think of nothing better here at AUK than knocking out Top Ten’s of this, that and the other. Indeed every man and his wife (or every wife and her husband […]

Pinball “Pinball” (Independent, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Something we don’t get a lot of these days is an album of instrumentals; that’s what we have here with the debut album from Pinball, entitled ‘Pinball’! The band consists of Australians Melissa Cox on violin […]

Video: Ben Reel “Up There in the Sky”

April 29, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Up There in the sky’ is the latest single from Irish rocker Ben reel. Filmed in black and white in an Irish boxing club, the video is a fitting accompaniment to a song about rising to […]

Zach Aaron “Fill Dirt Wanted” (Independent, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

From the delicious black humour on the album sleeve to the 12 songs of down home rambles contained within, ‘Fill Dirt Wanted’, the third album from Texan Zach Aaron, is a delight from start to finish. […]