2022 – Page 313 – Americana UK

Video: Ray Wylie Hubbard “Stone Blind Horses”

March 22, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0

World-weary but wise, defiant but reflecting on defeat. ‘Stone Blind Horses’ is Ray Wylie Hubbard’s hymn to a life lived and hard lessons learned. Willie Nelson joins Hubbard, weaving his iconic voice around the lyrics and […]

Book Review – Shana Goldin-Perschbacher “Queer Country”

March 22, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

A view from the margins of Americana. This is a really fascinating book about a sub-genre of Americana that many of us will know little, or nothing, about. As the author acknowledges early on, many people […]

Awkward Family Portraits “Dear Old West”

March 22, 2022 Paul Kerr 1

Dashing and gallus, Awkward Family Portraits are on top form here with their exotic blend of old time swing, country, blues and all points in between. Glasgow’s favourite purveyors of old time music, vaudeville and Western […]

Track Premiere: Stanhope “Angry At Strangers”

March 22, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Stanhope is the performing pseudonym of Chris Rawlins, who has been performing since 2014, when he moved to Chicago and started playing at open-mics, local gigs and local tours. He released an album ‘Bring on the […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 50

March 22, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

When does education end and humiliation begin? Every year before COVID there was one activity that the whole school took part in at the same time in the same place. It inspired love, loathing, hatred, imaginative […]