2020 – Page 82 – Americana UK

Track Premiere: James Houlahan “Tomorrow’s Had Enough Of Me”

October 19, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Some songs – they get to you from the first listen. Sometimes its a hard rocking punch that lifts and energises and informs and sometimes its the capture of an emotion so familiar it is as […]

Video Premiere: Martin Wardley “Resurrecting the Show”

October 19, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

This excellent video premiere is all about Martin Wardley’s gorgeous vocal. His characterful voice and lyrics have a storytelling quality that bring to mind Tom Waits. The video is superbly shot on location at the seafront […]

Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Starting Now”

October 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader, and we leave you from the most locked-down place in the country (or at least England) with the first video and title track from the forthcoming new album […]

Interview: Diana Jones on channelling Appalachian culture and refugees

October 16, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

Diana Jones is a well-respected singer-songwriter with admirers on both sides of the Atlantic. Steve Earle is on record as saying “Diana Jones is one of the best songwriters I have heard in a long, long […]

Video Premiere: Arborist “The Mountain Will Come To You”

October 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The plan had been to re-record two songs for a double A-side single – with a string accompaniment making them sound significantly different. And then, like everyone else, Mark McCambridge (a.k.a Arborist) found that Covid had […]