April 2020 – Page 38 – Americana UK

Dolly Parton gives $1Million to Coronavirus research

April 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The Country music legend that is Dolly Parton has a long history of charitable generosity – her Imagination Library for example has been responsible for providing more than 130million books to children. As a side shoot […]

Audrey & Hugh “Sisterman” (Independent, 2020)

April 3, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

The duo is an abiding force in Americana music and, more recently, male/female pairings have come very much to the fore – the Civil Wars (before their split), Shovels and Rope, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, […]

Pinewood “Riverbank” – Listen

April 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The self-release of ‘All Things With Symmetry‘ on May 1st will see Sam Kempe (Pinewood) move from bass duties in various Athens, Georgia, indie-rock bands coupled with audio production for the same to sending his own […]

Video: Mackenzie Shivers “The Canyon”

April 3, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The visually stunning landscapes in ‘The Canyon’ are a good match for the soaring voice of Mackenzie Shivers. Directed by Ross Vedder, the video features Shivers trying to out-pace a real snowstorm in the Colorado Mountains […]

Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger dead at 52

April 2, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Fountains of Wayne haven’t been mentioned on AUK for many years mainly because of their longterm hiatus from recording after recording one of the greatest folk-pop records of all time ‘Sky Full of Holes’ so it’s […]