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 […]