2020 – Page 341 – Americana UK

Amy LaVere “Painting Blue” (Archer Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

‘No Battle Hymn’, the striking first single from ‘Painting Blue’, the fifth album by Memphis-based Amy LaVere, is a timely anthem for a world in crisis. “No one’s ready to admit we may be out of […]

Video: Sunny Ozell “All That I Am”

March 18, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the latest single from Sunny Ozell’s new album, ‘Overnight Lows’. The uplifting song has a great groove and is described by Ozell as a ‘femme anthem’. The new album showcases a range of influences, […]

Nathan Evans Fox “Kindness” (Independent, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Paul Campbell 2

Nathan Evans Fox’s ‘Kindness’ gives us a poignant and realistic take on our individual and collective need for benevolence. These songs aren’t banal odes to empathy but an honest and adult version of kindness as an […]

Gill Landry, The Old Queen’s Head, Islington, London, 19th February 2020

March 18, 2020 Mark Underwood 0

The origin of the expression “skeleton at the feast (or banquet)” has been traced back to the Egyptian custom of bringing a skeleton or mummy to a feast as a reminder of mortality amidst the festivity. […]

Luan Parle “Never Say Goodbye” (LPR Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Clint West 0

Luan Parle has had an interesting journey. Her first album was released when she was 12 years old. ‘Never Say Goodbye’ is her fourth album, twenty-five years after that debut and ten years since her last release ‘Full Circle’ in […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

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On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

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Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

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Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

Year: 2020

Amy LaVere “Painting Blue” (Archer Records, 2020)

Video: Sunny Ozell “All That I Am”

Nathan Evans Fox “Kindness” (Independent, 2020)

Gill Landry, The Old Queen’s Head, Islington, London, 19th February 2020

Luan Parle “Never Say Goodbye” (LPR Records, 2020)

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

Ian Prowse “No Names”

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

Preview: Rose’s Pawn Shop selling great gigs for the next couple of weeks