2022 – Page 280 – Americana UK

Video: Tom Jenkins “Back Roads”

April 21, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Tom Jenkins’ recent single ‘Back Roads’ is delivered with a sense of urgency as a rhythmic strum and insistent percussion drive the song forward. There are soaring backing vocals and an anthemic, sing-along chorus, delivered with […]

Classic Americana Album: Neutral Milk Hotel “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”

April 20, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

It takes quite an effort to be an especially lazy person; easier to just be typically lazy. So, in selecting this album as a classic of Americana, I’ll demonstrate my own typically lazy approach by straightaway […]

Jim Page “The Time Is Now”

April 20, 2022 Graeme Tait 4

Songwriting master craftsman’s delivers 24th, and career defining album. Seattle based singer songwriter Jim Page has been recording albums now for close on fifty years, and in that time has had songs covered by such as […]

Fences "Niagra" feat. Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Video: Fences feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Niagra”

April 20, 2022 Ed Donnelly 1

Fences and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have collaborated on a new song, ‘Niagra’, and a cover of the seminal Stones classic. They have released a video for ‘Niagra’ which features the two singers shot separately in black […]

The Pawn Shop Saints “Ride My Galaxy”

April 20, 2022 Peter Churchill 1

Mature sounding album number three from The Saints and their prolific main man. Jeb Barry, the driving force behind The Pawn Shop Saints, is nothing if not a prolific songwriter. On top of his work for […]