July 2023 – Page 18 – Americana UK

Eilen Jewell “Get Behind the Wheel”

July 14, 2023 Guy Lincoln 1

Idahoan crafts optimistic melodicism from the hardest of times. The powerful and ominous sounding ‘Alive’ is the opening track on Eilen Jewell’s 13th long player ‘Get Behind the Wheel’. With its reverbed, Morricone-esque guitar figures and […]

Cordovas “High Roller” – playing for high stakes

July 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

This new song from Cordovas is pitched in a classic Cosmic Country meets Southern Rock meets Grateful Dead jamming – there’s a real feel of on the fly inspiration and improvisation on this tale of drunken […]

Video Premiere: Jo Beth Young “Wolf Song”

July 14, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

The new single by Jo Beth Young features engrossing, complex arrangements and richly layered textures. Young’s voice floats dreamily over the bass from Jules Bangs and Ben Roberts’ cello. It’s a dreamy soundscape to become lost in. The […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Andy Lowe “Barbry Allen” – not the most empathetic young lady…

July 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

This new single from Andy Lowe is a bluegrass reworking of the well known traditional song ‘Barbry Allen‘ a song noteworthy for it’s wonderful rhymes as much as for the story of “hard-hearted Barbry Allen,” a […]

Nicole Atkins “Singing In The Mirror” – hey, give yourself a break

July 28, 2026 0

It’s been an age since the last release from Nicole Atkins, the good nes is that her long-awaited seventh studio album Drama is arriving via Sun Records / Wicked Game Records on Friday 18th September. And […]

Video: Lily Seabird “Election Day” – lost in the darkness, searching for the light

July 28, 2026 0

Powerful. Intense. Uncompromising. Directed by Asher Groh, this is the absorbing video for Lily Seabird’s recent single Election Day. When Seabird sings, “I don’t want your attention, love me or leave me the fuck alone,” she […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Dean Owens “Sally’s Song (I Dreamed Of Michael Marra)”

July 27, 2026 0

Dean Owens is, of course, no stranger to these pages. With twelve albums and numerous AUK awards behind him, a search on this site will provide pages of reviews, interviews and videos. Typing the name Michael […]

Month: July 2023