2020 – Page 128 – Americana UK

Will Johnson “El Capitan” (Keeled Scales, 2020)

September 11, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Musician, writer and painter Will Johnson, one of Americana’s most prolific creative spirits, has released his seventh solo album, ‘El Capitan’. Stripped back hardly does justice to the sparseness of this recording. It is just him, […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Yo La Tengo “Autumn Sweater”

September 11, 2020 Paul Villers 0

Here at Americana-UK Towers we have unaccountably found ourselves in a new season and are ready to embrace all that this change in the meteorological world has to throw at us. Thank heavens that the madness […]

Oh Susanna “Sleepy Little Sailor Deluxe Edition” (MVKA, 2020)

September 11, 2020 Emily Dongray 0

Oh Susanna is what happens when Vancouver foments a Massachusettes girl. Discovered in a bar in 1999 and flung into a steady drip of albums since then, Oh Susanna has turned back to her second album […]

The End Of America “A Million Miles Of Low Road” – Listen

September 11, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

In the same way that The Milk Carton Kids have to endure endless comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel (poor, poor Milk Carton Kids), The End Of America are having to learn to shoulder the burden of […]

Video: The Byrds “Eight Miles High”

September 11, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

It’s retro Friday and it doesn’t get much better than this. Here is a late-era performance from legendary act The Byrds. It’s nearly ten minutes of hypnotic, mesmerising musicianship. This live version, from the Fillmore East […]