2020 – Page 20 – Americana UK

The Pawn Shop Saints “Ordinary Folks” (DollyRocker Records 2020)

December 9, 2020 Alan Fitter 3

Billed as an album by The Pawn Shop Saints, ‘Ordinary Folks’ is really all about Jeb Barry. He not only wrote all nine songs (although one, ‘New Year’s Eve Somewhere In The Midwest’ is a co-write […]

Video Premiere: Morton Valence “Skylines Change / Genders Blur”

December 9, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s a sinister darkness to the latest single from Morton Valence. The opening song from the album ‘Black Angel Drifter’ is a chaotic blend of genres, an unrelenting, atmospheric blast of apocalyptic sound. Discordant, disturbing, unsettling. […]

The Bills “Til the Blues Have Gone” (Wheeling Records, 2020)

December 9, 2020 Helen Jones 0

On ‘Keeping the Blues Alive’ Bill Booth and Bill Troiani – who collectively make up The Bills – sing about heartbreak keeping the genre going, and indeed it’s a passion of the blues that comes through […]

Book Review: Santi Elijah Holley “Murder Ballads” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

December 9, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 2

I’ve been lucky enough to get hold of an e-book or two from regular reviewer Rick Bayles and, on first reading, I’d echo his thoughts that the Bloomsbury 331/3 series is excellent – even bearing in […]

Palomino Kings “If You Want Me, Like I Want You” – Listen

December 9, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

With this roots rocking new single the Palomino Kings meet our criteria perfectly – they are playing Americana and they hail out of the UK. On ‘If You Want Me, Like I Want You‘ having agonised […]