May 2021 – Page 4 – Americana UK

Artwork for Jay Pollmann album"One Day Older None the Wiser

Jay Pollmann “One Day Older None the Wiser”

May 27, 2021 Richard Phillips 0

Footstomping, bluesy goodness from South Ontario. Neil Young sung of a town in North Ontario, Jay Pollman, hailing from the steel town of Hamilton in South Ontario could well do the same with minor geographic alterations. […]

AMA 2021 Honors & Awards nominees announced

May 27, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

The Americana Music Association’s annual Americana Honors & Awards is returning for its 20th year on September 22nd at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and the nominees for the award categories were announced yesterday by Keb’ Mo’ and […]

Track Premiere: Michael Gay “Sleeper Cab”

May 27, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

With a rolling early rock and roll feel Michael Gay captures a certain spirit of travel across the States, endless roads rolling by. ‘Sleeper Cab‘ plays straight into the mythology of the road, “traffic’s going slow, […]

Video: SUSTO feat. Ben Bridwell “Hard Drugs”

May 27, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

To celebrate the announcement of ‘Rogue Acoustic’, a new live album due on 4th July, SUSTO have shared this outstanding performance of ‘Hard Drugs’, which originally appeared on 2017 album ‘& I’m Fine Today’. For this […]

Classic Americana Albums: Neko Case “Furnace Room Lullaby”

May 26, 2021 Peter Tomkins 1

‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ announces itself pretty quickly as “not your standard country album” with the front cover of Case stretched out on what appears to be a public toilet concrete floor like a corpse. Turn the […]