2020 – Page 372 – Americana UK

The Mastersons “No Time For Love Songs” (Red House Records, 2020)

February 24, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, collectively The Mastersons, spend some of their time as part of Steve Earle’s Dukes. This is their fourth album and starts with the title track, a love song. Produced by Shooter […]

Track Premiere: Craig Gerdes “Only The Road Knows”

February 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Craig Gerdes has that low rumbling growl of a voice that, coupled with his songs and their arrangements can’t help but bring that Outlaw sound to mind. He’s opened for the likes of Tyler Childers and […]

Video: Joe Edwards “Keep On Running”

February 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This is a song and video with a wonderful sense of feel-good freedom, summed up by the hitchhiker’s sign part way through, which reads: ‘Goin Anywhere’. It features the open road running through the most gorgeous […]

Watch Billy Bragg & Peter Donegan perform “Rock Island Line” at the AMAUKs

February 21, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a clip courtesy of the Blues Kitchen from this year’s AMAUK awards where Billy Bragg performed the classic ‘Rock Island Line’ with Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter. It was […]

The Lone Bellow “Half Moon Light” (Dualtone Records, 2020)

February 21, 2020 Helen Jones 0

The tracks ‘Intro’, ‘Interlude’ and ‘Finale’ on The Lone Bellow’s fourth studio album are all parts of a hymn. This may seem a little strange for a band hailing from Brooklyn, New York, but The Lone […]