July 2022 – Page 27 – Americana UK

Ali Neil “Land Before Us”

July 7, 2022 Paul Russell 0

Dazzlingly accomplished debut release from East Sussex future star. Ali Neil is the ‘showbiz’ name of East Sussex based singer songwriter Alastair Robertson and amazingly this is his debut release. And what a debut it is. […]

Jake Blount “Didn’t It Rain” – endlessly….

July 7, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Jake Blount’s new album on Smithsonian Folkways is ‘The New Faith‘, which is a dystopian Afrofuturistic concept album. The record features ten reimagined and reinterpreted traditional Black spirituals across twelve tracks in addition to two original […]

Video: Dawes “Everything is Permanent”

July 7, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Los Angeles-based band Dawes have released their latest single ‘Everything is Permanent’ from their forthcoming eighth studio album ‘Misadventures of Doomscroller’. The new album is due on 22nd July and is the follow-up to the highly-acclaimed ‘Good […]

Classic Americana Albums: Joe Ely “Honky Tonk Masquerade”

July 6, 2022 Rick Bayles 4

It’s my turn to contribute to the Classic Americana Albums series again and I always worry that I won’t be able to find a good album to write about. This series has been running for a […]

Damien Jurado “Reggae Film Star”

July 6, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

Indie-folk veteran, Damien Jurado, releases a stunningly beautiful album of hazy, dreamy, melancholic songs poking around the fringes of TV-land’s backlots. With a career spanning a quarter of a century and eighteen albums that never dip […]