July 2022 – Page 29 – Americana UK

Interview: Shearwater main man Jonathan Meiburg on a 6-year awakening

July 5, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Songs are like places that you can visit and inhabit for a few minutes. Regular visitors to Americana UK know that the music featured ranges across the widest spectrum of what can be considered americana, and […]

artwork for Carlisle album "Peculiar Missouri".

Willi Carlisle “Peculiar, Missouri”

July 5, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

Carlisle challenges country’s macho image with stunning sophomore offering. Growing up in the rural, small town life of the American Midwest, in Kansas and Illinois, Carlisle’s world was full of juxtapositions. Captain of his football team […]

Derek Senn “Texas Legislators” – hey man, what’s going on?

July 5, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

We shouldn’t be featuring this song today. Derek Senn has a new album out ‘The Big Five-O‘ which features songs in his solidly rocking style that for the most part carry a message and are delivered […]

The Other Side of Me: David Jarman’s long love of the eclectic output of Jeff Beck

July 5, 2022 David Jarman 1

From ‘Hi Ho Silver Lining’, Dad’s disco dancing favourite, to sharing the stage with Johnny Depp at the Royal Albert Hall – this has been my journey with Jeff Beck, and I’ve enjoyed every twist and […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 62

July 5, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Looking forward to reading for pleasure and stilling the whirling head. One of the delights of the much criticised but definitely needed summer holidays enjoyed by those in the teaching profession (and in doing this we […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

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Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0

A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

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Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]

Month: July 2022