2020 – Page 86 – Americana UK

Video: War & Pierce “Amen”

October 15, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Fabulous finger-picking and exquisitely characterful vocals are the highlights of this soulful anthem for our times. The acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Sunny War has joined forces with soul singer Chris Pierce to release music as War […]

Classic Americana albums: Alejandro Escovedo “Gravity” (Watermelon Records, 1992)

October 14, 2020 Paul Kerr 2

After a decade and a half of recording with a series of bands (including The Nuns, who opened for The Sex Pistols USA tour) and gradually mutating from punk to Americana, Alejandro Escovedo finally emerged fully-grown […]

Danny Newcomb “Mackerel Sky” (Rock Candy Mountain, 2020)

October 14, 2020 Helen Jones 0

Musician Danny Newcomb’s latest album sees him coming from an unusual perspective for someone whose life has been dedicated to rock ‘n’ roll: raising children, and sheep, on a farm on the pastoral Vashon Island. It’s […]

Watch Isbell and Shires cover John Prine’s “Storm Windows”

October 14, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have been playing several fairly rainy nights of socially distanced performances at the Caverns venue in Pelham, Tennesse which concluded on Sunday night, but the previous night’s show took place […]

Video Premiere: Jeffery Straker “Morning Light”

October 14, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

From the moment Jeffery Straker sings: “I’m staring at the stars // But I ain’t Galileo,” over flowing piano, it’s easy to get lost in ‘Morning Light’. There’s a cinematic quality to the beautiful lyrics and […]