2020 – Page 355 – Americana UK

Thunder and Rain “Passing In The Night” (Independent, 2020)

March 6, 2020 Jim Finnie 0

Is it folk? Country? Bluegrass? That’s not an unfair question to ask yourself when listening to ‘Passing In The Night’ the latest (and third) album from hard-working Colorado outfit Thunder and Rain. Featuring main band members […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Spirit “Nature’s Way”

March 6, 2020 Paul Villers 0

Viruses. Tricky little buggers those things. Getting into stuff and causing mischief as they do. Technically they are life forms but even that is doubted by some experts. They have DNA (or RNA) and reproduce but […]

Bronwynne Brent “Undercover” (Independent, 2020)

March 6, 2020 Linda Jameson 0

‘Undercover’ is the third album from Mississippi-born Bronwynne Brent. It’s a shift away from the folky Americana sound of her previous albums, ‘Deep Dark Water’ (2011) and ‘Stardust’ (2014) into the jazzy sounds of a cocktail-soaked […]

The Dead South, Brixton Academy, 27th February 2020

March 6, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

A bluegrass band selling out the Brixton Academy? That’s right, but this is the Canadian acoustic four piece The Dead South, so add punk, rock and folk, all at a furious pace. It does not take […]

Palomino Kings “Living In The Dark” – Listen

March 6, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest single from the Palomino Kings takes some cues from Daniel Lanois – with switches in sonic intensity that happen at the drop of a drumstick, moving from an evocative ache to an earsplitting surge […]