2022 – Page 277 – Americana UK

Sarah McCulloch “Sawmiller’s Daughter”

April 22, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0

A well made album with a touch of the old school and plenty of songwriting promise. Sarah McCulloch is described as a Country/Americana singer-songwriter and her music probably falls at the outer edge of this site’s […]

Video: Mavis Staples + Levon Helm “You’ve Got to Move”

April 22, 2022 Ed Donnelly 1

Near the end of the legendary concert film ‘The Last Waltz’, The Band and The Staples Singers perform ‘The Weight’ together on a sound stage. As they exit the final verse of the song Mavis Staples […]

Classic Clips: Lambchop “Give It” – XX Merge Festival, 2009

April 22, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 1

There seem to be two lines of thinking (with a few sub-lines between them) about what the concept of Americana music should be. One sees it as a combination of all types of roots music with […]

Live Review: Sound Of The Sirens, The Grace, London – 8th April 2022

April 22, 2022 David Chalfen 0

With close to a decade of recordings and touring on their CV, Sound of the Sirens have thus far stayed under the AUK radar. They are a duo of Abbe Martin and Hannah Wood, Exeter-rooted, and […]

The Wardens “Sold Out At The Ironwood”

April 22, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

A modern addition to western music in the spirit of Ian Tyson and Tom Russell How many people can remember the western in country and western music? It was the early 20th Century music business that […]