2021 – Page 323 – Americana UK

Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter “Parapraxis of a Dragonfly” – Listen

March 17, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

What, Wednesday afternoon again? And we know you’re thinking the same as us: “Man, I could do with something to just soothe this mid-week moment away to some kind of blissful coda.” Right. So what we […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 10

March 17, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

So we’re back and the kids are alright. The beauty of teaching teenagers is their innate ability to appear completely indifferent to giving a tuppenny toss about anything other than their tiny world view. So as […]

Album cover for Willie Nelson's That's Life

Willie Nelson “That’s Life”

March 17, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

Nelson’s second Sinatra tribute is affectionate and authentic. ‘That’s Life’ is Willie Nelson’s second Frank Sinatra tribute album, following up on ‘My Way’ from 2018. The cover art is an atmospheric take on Sinatra’s moody 1955 […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Blasters “The Blasters”

March 17, 2021 Guy Lincoln 12

Today’s ‘classic album’ is ‘The Blasters‘ by The Blasters, a beacon of American music and a record that is as perfect an encapsulation of the collision between punk and roots as it is possible to imagine. […]

New Joana Serrat due June

March 17, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Listen to the first single ‘Pictures’ from it below. Catalan singer-songwriter Joana Serrat has announced the release new album ‘Hardcore From The Heart’, which lands on June 11th via Loose Music. Serrat’s fifth album is the […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2021