April 2022 – Page 15 – Americana UK

Artwork for The Cowboy Junkies album Songs Of The Recollection

Cowboy Junkies “Songs Of The Recollection”

April 19, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

Superb collection of cover versions from alt-country veterans. The Cowboy Junkies initially came to most people’s attention via their cover version of ‘Sweet Jane’ released over 30 years ago. Their first album in 1986 was comprised […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Ramsay Midwood “Feed My Monkey”

April 19, 2022 Paul Russell 9

So last week we had some Canadian gunslinging with the wonderful The Guess Who. Firepower has been a relative constant in music over the years, inevitably providing musicians with powerful references. Looking back at the my […]

Haze & Dacey Collective “Letters from Gilead”

April 19, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Tales from a fictional world with a chilling link to reality. Inspired by the dystopia in the TV drama ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and the novel by Margaret Atwood that lies behind it, ‘Letters from Gilead’ by […]

Abigail Lapell “Stolen Time”

April 19, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

With “Stolen Time”, Abigail Lapell has come up with an almost timeless set of songs. How do you come up with a musically subdued album without resorting to the standard singer-songwriter concept of just a voice […]

Mary Gauthier “Fall Apart World” – In which everything can, paradoxically, fall together

April 19, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

We all know what to expect from Mary Gauthier – do we not? Intensity, savvy anger, grit. Well, prepare to be as surprised as Gauthier herself who has this to say about ‘Fall Apart World‘ : […]