May 2020 – Page 25 – Americana UK

AmericanA-Z – Buffy Sainte-Marie

May 12, 2020 Jim Finnie 2

Beverly Sainte-Marie was born in February 1941 on the Cree nation’s Piapot 75 Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. As a youngster, she fell victim to the hideously shameful Sixties Scoop – a catch-all name for a series […]

Video: Sam Burton “Nothing Touches Me”

May 12, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Nothing Touches Me’ is the warm, summery new single from Sam Burton. Featuring Kacey Johansing on backing vocals, this dreamy, melodic song is from Burton’s forthcoming LP, produced by Jarvis Taveniere, which will be his first […]

Jake Blount “Spider Tales” (Free Dirt Records, 2020)

May 12, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

Taking his cue from the likes of The Carolina Chocolate Drops and subsequent forays by Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Songs Of Our Native Daughters, banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount peers into the past when […]

Norma MacDonald “Old Future” (Noyes Records, 2020)

May 12, 2020 Joe Edwards 0

Drawing from late hours as an emergency room nurse, Norma MacDonald discharges her fifth release, ‘Old Future’, seeing to what MacDonald lightly describes as “death by nostalgia”. It is true, that the album nods towards a […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Brothers Osborne “Weed, Whiskey and Willie”

May 12, 2020 Ewan Lury 0

While the previous chain gang entry was all about Willie Nelson and the song ‘City of New Orleans’, I myself am not looking at his son or even his granddaughter, but I thought I would look […]