March 2023 – Page 21 – Americana UK

Live review: Dream Syndicate + The Rain Parade, The Hug & Pint, Glasgow – 11th March 2023

March 16, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Glasgow’s Hug & Pint might be a cool, hipster like watering hole in the west end but its cramped cellar strained to contain the sold out crowd who had flocked to see this legendary coupling of […]

Doug Paisley “Say What You Like”

March 16, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

A disappointing return for Canadian songwriter on new label. Doug Paisley debuted 15 years ago and seemingly just arrived fully formed as a sure-footed troubadour who could be relied upon to produce heartfelt material shrouded in […]

Track Premiere: The Scarlet Goodbye “Angel Dust”

March 16, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Scarlet Goodbye is a Minnesota band that has a “happened by accident” kind of backstory. Soul Asylum/Golden Smog veteran Daniel Murphy and Yacht-Rocker/Producer Jeff Arundel met via a random encounter in a café on a […]

Video: The Hope, The Fear “Hotel Haigh”

March 16, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the absorbing new single from multi-instrumentalist Alex Fletcher, who performs under the pseudonym The Hope, The Fear. In ‘Hotel Haigh’, the ramshackle old hotel is a metaphor for the human mind, in which ideas, […]

Classic Americana Albums: Drive-By Truckers “The Dirty South”

March 15, 2023 Andy Davidson 3

From 2001 up until 2005 the Drive-By Truckers were a huge, powerful and overwhelming force. A juggernaut. They aggressively, yet eloquently gave a voice to the blue collar South. People at the whim of capitalist forces […]