2022 – Page 33 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Tim Minchin “The Aeroplane”

November 25, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. We are full of cold here in Americana Towers which feels like a combination of all the colds we didn’t get during Covid – they always catch up […]

Jingle Bells Friday – welcome to the bleak midwinter

November 25, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, here we are at last with the first edition of Jingle Bells Friday for this year’s festive season. We’ve had a bumper crop of yule-themed songs already so to (hopefully!) fit them all in we’re […]

Video: Andrew Bird feat. Phoebe Bridgers “I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain”

November 25, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0

Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers reimagine an Emily Dickinson poem in ‘I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain’. Bird appears in grainy black and white, looking tense and inquisitive in a slim-fitting suit. Microscopic scenes of […]

Classic Clips: Ted Hawkins “Green Eyed Girl” – Amazing Grace, 1995

November 25, 2022 Paul Russell 1

Tragedy has often been a creative source for musicians, but there can’t be many who had a harder or more challenging life than the late, great Ted Hawkins. Born into utter poverty in Lakeshore, Mississippi to […]

Live Review: GA-20, The Garage, Islington – 17th November 2022

November 25, 2022 Martin Fisher 1

A trio from Boston Massachusetts, GA-20 are the latest outfit to bring the blues bang up to date with lead singer Pat Faherty announcing “Let’s have some fun” as they bounced onto the stage tonight. That […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2

One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 2

Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

Year: 2022