June 2020 – Page 21 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Steve Earle “Times Like These”

June 12, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Another crazy week then in which even the notoriously conservative with a small ‘C’ county music industry is dealing with its complicated history – so we leave you dear reader with a new recording of a […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Jack Marion

June 12, 2020 Helen Jones 0

For the latest in our mini-gig series to help keep us sane in lockdown, we bring you a solo offering from Jack Marion of the titular Jack Marion and the Pearl Snap Prophets. The North Carolina […]

Video Premiere: Richard Davies & The Dissidents “Way of the Wild”

June 12, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

Richard Davies rocks out and sings about fighting to survive on new single ‘Way of the Wild’. Davies and the band have managed to produce a creative, engaging video despite doing it while in lock-down. We’re […]

Ten covers of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe”

June 12, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

‘Ode to Billie Joe’ is a dark southern story, cinematic in its lyrics but remaining enigmatic. The story, tells of the preacher, Brother Talyor saying how he saw the song’s narrator up on Choctaw Ridge with […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Iron and Wine “Love Vigilantes”

June 12, 2020 Paul Villers 0

Down here in The People’s Republic of Liverpudlia we are a fairly peaceful lot. At Americana-UK Towers we employ our own security staff but down in the village and the surrounding hamlets matters of policing the […]