May 2023 – Page 32 – Americana UK

Lauren Morrow “People Talk” – the chattering classes

May 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

On the title track from her new album Lauren Morrow pretty much skewers the endless drift of meaningless and thoughtless chatter that the world is full of: “people talk a big game when they need someone […]

Video: Ben Hemming “The Devil’s Dance”

May 5, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the latest single from London-based blues singer-songwriter Ben Hemming. The well-shot video for ‘The Devil’s Dance’ finds Hemming walking and dancing through city streets at night while he sings of loss disillusionment and giving up […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Harry Chapin songs

May 4, 2023 Alan Fitter 7

It’s now nearly 42 years since Harold Forster Chapin died in a horrific car crash on the Long Island Expressway when his tiny 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit collided with an enormous semi-trailer truck. Better known of course […]

Rufus Wainwright “Harvest” – from WBS

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

WBS – that’s Wainwright, Bird and Stills, and in this incidence the Stills is Chris Stills. The Bird is Andrew Bird, no exciting Byrd connection there but hey, you can’t have everything. And Rufus Wainwright doesn’t […]

Henke Wermelin and His New Love “Spitting Distance”

May 4, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Swedish Americana with a Gothic twist that only occasionally hits the mark. Opening with the suitably dark ‘Bring Me My Shotgun’ Wermelin throws the entire kitchen and then the sink at delivering a rumbling, Crampsy rocker […]