May 2020 – Page 36 – Americana UK

AUK’s Chain Gang: Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans”

May 4, 2020 Tim Martin 0

The previous Chain Gang link, The Highwaymen, featured Willie Nelson among their all-star lineup. Their debut album which featured our chosen song ‘Desperados Waiting For A Train’ also carried a Steve Goodman/John Prine song, ‘The Twentieth […]

Lawrence County “The Frailty of Humans” (Independent, 2020)

May 4, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

The title of Nottingham alt-country outlaws Lawrence County’s new album, ‘The Frailty of Humans’, couldn’t be more apt for these worrying times we’re living in – and, as if that’s not prescient enough, there’s even a […]

The Lowest Pair “Shot Down the Sky”

May 4, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The Lowest Pair are Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, and they bring to banjo led folk that essential ingredient of strangeness – anyone can sing of the world as it is but it takes someone […]

Video: Oxygenpony “Twenty One”

May 4, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Paul Megna, formerly of the band Oxygen Ponies, is now performing under the Oxygenpony moniker. ‘Twenty One’ is the atmospheric, first single from ‘How Aeroplanes Fly’, the debut album with the new project. The dreamy song […]

Something for the weekend: Woody Guthrie “This Land is Your Land”

May 1, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Happy May Day comrades – a day that we should celebrate this year of all years given the sacrifices so many frontline workers are making at the moment. Showing appreciation through clapping is cathartic and an […]