June 2022 – Page 33 – Americana UK

The Slocan Ramblers “Up The Hill And Through The Fog”

June 6, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

Classic bluegrass with modern twist see Toronto’s finest deliver best yet. These past few years have found bluegrass music in the rudest of health with a new generation of artists picking up the baton and running […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: James McMurtry “Forgotten Coast”

June 6, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

Teal ducks aren’t just familiar to ornithologists and AUK Chain Gang readers since last week’s inclusion of Joan Shelley’s ‘Teal’ in the series by Darren Lumbroso. “For a big chunk of the year, the blue-winged teal, […]

Kurt Deemer “Reclaim The Night”

June 6, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘Reclaim The Night,’ Deemer stamps a hefty dose of personality on his rocking Americana influences Kurt Deemer might turn out to be one of the unsung heroes of modern Americana. Throughout his recorded output, and […]

But is it Americana? – Lindisfarne

June 6, 2022 Martin Johnson 15

Martin Johnson is the latest of our writers to argue for an unlikely Americana candidate. He’s chosen a band that will always be associated with the North-East; can he convince on a connection with the wild […]

Kate rusby album art for 30: Happy Returns

Kate Rusby “30: Happy Returns”

June 6, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Thirty year celebration involving… everyone! This album has a rightly celebratory feel as Rusby, a key mover and shaker in progressing folk from the confines of the beard stroking isolationists that had bedevilled the form for […]