2020 – Page 115 – Americana UK

RB Morris “Going Back To The Sky” (Independent, 2020)

September 22, 2020 Ewan Lury 0

RB Morris, the musical poet, released his latest album ‘Going Back To The Sky’ earlier this year, filled with songs that he wrote on his road trips out west when he was on his youthful adventures. […]

Blitzen Trapper “Holy Smokes Future Jokes” (Yep Roc, 2020)

September 22, 2020 Keith Hargreaves 0

Eric Earley’s Blitzen Trapper’s latest is a delightful confection that feels lighter than its source stimuli may suggest (the Tibetan Book of the Dead for one). It is an album chock full of earworms that have […]

Jason Isbell: “I’d like this mask to protect me from Van Morrison” – Watch

September 22, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

You may have seen Van Morrison in the press last week raging against restrictions because of Covid with a new batshit song which goes: “No more lockdown / No more government overreach / No more fascist […]

Balsam Range “Richest Man” – Listen

September 22, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Marc Pruett, Buddy Melton, Darren Nicholson, Tim Surrett and Caleb Smith are Balsam Range, a bluegrass band from North Carolina. They’ve won a string of awards (a long string at that) in the last few years, […]

Video: Ben Harper “Inland Empire”

September 22, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Simply, breathtakingly beautiful. Ben Harper is an incredibly talented performer and, here, he shows how the lap steel guitar can be used to create musical poetry. It needs no words. Harper has just announced the release […]