2020 – Page 2 – Americana UK

Steve Earle “Christmas In Washington” – Listen

December 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

Well, the end of another year and time to look forward to Christmas and a New Year. It can, after all, hardly be worse than 2020. We hope. So, let’s embrace unbridled optimism with Steve Earle’s […]

Video Review of the Year 2020

December 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Well, what a year it’s been: a bitterly contested US Presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement and a global pandemic that brought the world to a standstill. The word ‘unprecedented’ must be the most well-used […]

Anton O’Donnell wins ‘The Twang Factor’ 2020

December 23, 2020 Clint West 2

When we first came up with the idea for ‘The Twang Factor’ we were unsure what kind of response we would get. As it happens we need not have worried as we had very many entrants […]

Classic Americana Albums: Lowell George “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here” (Warner Records, 1979)

December 23, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 4

Lowell George made this album, a melting pot of so many musical influences, because apparently, he was not happy with the way that Little Feat was heading, as he saw it, into jazz-rock territory. I can’t […]

Book Review: Eric Wolfson “From Elvis in Memphis” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

December 23, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0

Rather like the proverbial buses, another of Bloomsbury’s 331/3 books arrives soon after the recent, ‘Murder Ballads’, volume. Whereas, ‘Murder Ballads’, was a universal tale of musical history and folklore focussing on a particular album and artist, ‘From Elvis […]