July 2020 – Page 27 – Americana UK

Kate Rusby to release lockdown album

July 9, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Kate Rusby is, occasionally, allowed out of the realm of folk ballads, and has even been known to listen to music created in her own lifetime. There’s a preconception burst. During an appearance on Jo Whiley’s […]

Robert Jon and the Wreck “Last Light on The Highway” (Independent, 2020)

July 9, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Album opener ‘Oh Miss Carolina’ sets out Robert Jon Burrison’s manifesto. A Rolling Stones guitar riff to kick it off, a bit of Grateful Dead piano, a Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar solo and southern soul harmonies. Robert […]

Bonny Light Horseman “Green Rocky Road” – Listen

July 9, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Without a doubt one of the most exciting bands to emerge in 2019 – we loved the album, we loved them live. If you need the reminder, Bonny Light Horseman are Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson and […]

Video: The Americans “No Fun”

July 9, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The Americans certainly look like they’re having plenty of fun here while performing their version of ‘No Fun’ by The Stooges. It’s up-tempo, foot-tapping, headbanging stuff and the Los Angeles rock and rollers bring the song […]

Classic Americana Albums: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Stones In The Road” (Columbia, 1994)

July 8, 2020 Peter Churchill 1

Mary Chapin Carpenter can be credited with bringing this reviewer out of the musical wilderness that was his post teenage decade; the 1980s. Struggling to identify with anything remotely described as popular at the time it […]