July 2020 – Page 15 – Americana UK

10 Americana songs about cars

July 20, 2020 Martin Johnson 12

Cars have always featured in American music right from the very first widespread recordings made in the ‘20s. The reason for this is fairly mundane, America is a big country and over the decades economic forces […]

Will Hoge “Tiny Little Movies” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

July 20, 2020 Mark Johnson 0

Top class writing with a great sound and a sense of authenticity could be a recipe for the perfect Americana album, and Will Hoge delivers that full package in abundance with his 11th album ‘Tiny Little […]

Gillian Welch to release new volume of “lost recordings” – Listen

July 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Gillian Welch has confirmed the digital release of ‘Boots No.2: The Lost Songs, Vol.1’ which will come out at the end of this month via Acony Records, the independent record label she and partner David Rawlings […]

The Song Remains: Rod Bernard 1940 – 2020

July 20, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

Rod Bernard, who died on July 12th, was a leading exponent of swamp pop. While the term was coined by English writer Bill Millar in the ‘70s, it refers to a style of music that grew […]

Cinder Well “No Summer” (Free Dirt Records, 2020)

July 20, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

Getting to grips with ‘No Summer’, the distinctive second LP from Cinder Well is a tricky business, especially so if approaching it with little or no experience of the shadowy and complex underground scene from which […]