March 2021 – Page 25 – Americana UK

artwork for Johnny Cash album "American Recordings"

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 7 – Johnny Cash “American Recordings”

March 11, 2021 Clint West 0

With three great albums already unveiled, we now reach Number 7 in our countdown of the top 10 americana albums ever. Andrew Frolish gives his assessment of the extraordinary work that reignited Johnny Cash’s career and built on […]

Video: Lanue “September”

March 11, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Visually and sonically this is like something from a dream; it’s entrancing and hypnotic. ‘September’ is the latest video from the recent self-titled album by Lanue. The found-footage used in the video is put together in […]

Julian Taylor up for two Juno Awards

March 11, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It seems that Americana UK was not the only place to be bowled over by Julian Taylor’s 2020 release ‘The Ridge‘, as Julian Taylor, of combined Mohawk and Caribbean ancestry, has been nominated in the JUNO […]

artwork for Adam Douglas album "Broken Angels"

Adam Douglas “Better Angels”

March 11, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Stretching the boundaries of Americana. This third full-length solo album from Adam Douglas stretches even Americana’s pliable genre boundaries. Wrapped in a big band sound ‘Better Angels’ takes in classic soul, blues, rock, R&B, jazz and […]

Shuffle: Funeral Music

March 11, 2021 David Cowling 1

These dark days of the global pandemic have not in any way increased the number of times I think about the music I want to be played at my funeral. I have been thinking about it […]