June 2020 – Page 24 – Americana UK

Ismay “Songs of Sonoma Mountain” (Independent, 2020)

June 11, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

Ismay – aka singer-songwriter Avery Hellman – is named after a small US town in the Northern Great Plains of Montana, which, at the last count, had a population of only 19. But, judging by her […]

Market Junction “Nebraska” – Listen

June 11, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

You could be mistaken for thinking that Market Junction hail from a particular place in the USA. Hell, the hints are right there in the lyrics: “Unless a man’s in love with wind or dust or […]

Video: Callum Easter “Pop Goes the Weasel”

June 11, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Callum Easter bought an accordion in a charity shop and then learned to play and perform in the pubs around Edinburgh before signing to Moshi Moshi records. This brilliant single was recorded at Green Door Studios […]

Classic Americana Albums: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle be Unbroken” (United Artists, 1972)

June 10, 2020 Mark Nenadic 3

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, pop music was crawling with long-haired folk-rockers from California. Teeming with them in fact. But these god-damn Long Beach hippies, led by Jeff Hanna and McEuen, took themselves off […]

Steady Habits “Hold In Your Breath (EP)” (Independent, 2020)

June 10, 2020 Emily Dongray 0

There is a band called Steady Habits which are a Connecticut-based American punk-ska band: this is definitely not them. This Steady Habits is the unmistakable new Americana project of Sean Duggan of Loud Mountains, and there […]