Features
AUK’s Chain Gang: Joshua Hedley “This Time”
Last week’s Chain Gang included a somewhat circuitous discussion of songs and albums titled ‘The Mountain’, resulting in Benjamin Tod’s version of the Steve Earle song of the same name.
Month: September 2020
Album Reviews
Mean Mary “Alone” (Woodrock Records, 2020)
The title of the new Mean Mary album says it all – ‘Alone’. It is Mary and her banjo. Or Mary and her guitar. OK, sometimes she combines the two into one instrument banjitar. Plain and […]
Features
Ten environmentally-aware Americana songs
The importance of the diversity of our ecology, and of environmental sustainability, are constant watchwords these days and every news bulletin seems to bring another warning that we need to take better care of this planet […]
Album Reviews
Emily Barker “A Dark Murmuration Of Words” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)
For her sixth full-length album release Emily Barker is taking on the world. Addressing climate change, racism, sexism and the myths of economic progress, Barker has, in her own softly spoken and articulate way, delivered her […]
Tracks
Dan Atta “Life Beyond Life” – Listen
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Dan Atta taught himself guitar whilst studying Literature and Creative Writing at Brown University, and there’s a Mercury Rev dreamlike feel to ‘Life Beyond Life‘, and lyrics which match that feel perfectly with […]