March 2022 – Page 37 – Americana UK

Video: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet “Ask Me”

March 2, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Caitlin Cobb-Vialet is a multi-instrumentalist whose music feels immediately familiar. The San Francisco songwriter delivers intriguing lyrics, full of personal details and images, in a gorgeously tuneful but conversational style that feels like she is baring […]

I Write The Songs… Harlan Howard

March 1, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Harlan Howard pretty much wrote the book when it comes to country songwriting. Howard is the man behind the famous description of country music as being “three chords and the truth” and it’s a hard description […]

Jamie McDell “Jamie McDell”

March 1, 2022 Alan Fitter 0

An inspired album of songs that aren’t all what they seem at first listen. Jamie McDell has lived a peripatetic life. Born in New Zealand, at age 7, her lawyer father moved Jamie, her mother and […]

The Other Side Of Me: Mark Nenadic on the “perfect synthesis” of The Cramps

March 1, 2022 Mark Nenadic 2

The Cramps invented americana. They did. OK – not the plaid shirt, bearded type of americana music that we here at AUK bring you week in, week out. But the perfect synthesis of trash TV, trash […]

Seth Swirsky “Sunny Day” – enjoying the melodic sunshine

March 1, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Seth Swirsky makes no bones about his inspirations on ‘Sunny Day‘, this upbeat power-pop song has unmistakable Beatlesque touches in the fuzzed up guitar breaks. Amongst all the imagery of the song there is, Swirsky avers, […]