2022 – Page 285 – Americana UK

Live review: Annie Keating, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 9th April 2022

April 14, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

As the “new normal” slowly settles in, the gig calendar is filling up and that sense of release, almost a degree of frisson, which one experienced when the first chords rang out after two years of […]

Birds of Play “Murmurations Vol. 2”

April 14, 2022 Peter Tomkins 0

A string band striding purposefully that boundary between folk and country. Colorado’s Birds of Play are an acoustic foursome of, predominantly, guitar, mandolin, upright bass and violin. Having started as a three piece they expanded with […]

Deer Scout “Cowboy” – Listen

April 14, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

By no way of a definitive explanation we present Dena Miller, a.k.a. Deer Scout, who grew up on a diet of folk, spent 6 years writing and exploring projects through Philly’s punk scene, Oberlin’s conservatory experimentalism […]

Video: Matt York “Gently Used”

April 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is ‘Gently Used’, the latest single from Boston-based singer-songwriter Matt York. ‘Gently Used’ is driven by mournful piano and ethereal guitar but what really makes it stand out is York’s sorrowful vocal performance, full of […]

Classic Americana Albums: R.E.M. “Lifes Rich Pageant”

April 13, 2022 Jonathan Smith 1

In which our heroes refine their songwriting but keep their mysterious alchemy. For many, the introduction to the unlikely story of REM’s journey to world dominance began with the mandolin-driven (and most unlikely uber-hit of 1991) […]