2021 – Page 244 – Americana UK

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 […]

The Good Lovelies “Life On The Road” – Listen

May 26, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Canada’s The Good Lovelies have a new release – a three song EP called ‘B-Sides‘. The thing is though, that these are not rare B-Sides gathered together, they’re songs that didn’t quite manage to sneak onto […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0

It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 1

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Year: 2021