2022 – Page 137 – Americana UK

Classic Americana Albums: Willie Nile “Streets of New York”

August 24, 2022 David Jarman 0

New Yorker Willie Nile is often regarded as a musician’s musician, his admirers including Bruce Springsteen and Lucinda Williams, the latter quoted by AUK’s Gordon Sharpe in his 2020 interview with Nile as commenting “Willie Nile […]

Nora Brown “Long Time To Be Gone”

August 24, 2022 Paul Gibson 0

Teenage New Yorker’s accomplished album of traditional banjo music. The expectation is that old time music is most authentic when played by true old timers; musicians deep into long lives, living and breathing the hand me […]

The Song Remains: Jerry Allison 1939 – 2022

August 24, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

The drummer and songwriter who helped provide the soundtrack to countless lives. It was announced on The Buddy Holly Facebook page that Cricket drummer and songwriter Jerry Allison had died on Monday 22nd August at the […]

Mean Mary & the Contrarys “Hell & Heroes Vol. I”

August 24, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Dark tales to virtuoso gothic banjo. Mean Mary James is nothing if not prolific. If you think you’ve just read a review of her latest release, you have: that was ‘Portrait of a Woman’. Barely a […]

Track Premiere: Velcro Dog “Head over High-Tops”

August 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Velcro Dog is the solo project of Norwegian musician and songwriter Tony Gonzalez, on which his forceful vocal is accompanied by a stripped-down musicality against which the stark lyrics he conjures up become the central focus. […]