2023 – Page 102 – Americana UK

Live Review: Tommy Prine + Old Man Boom, The Portland Arms, Cambridge – 3rd September 2023

September 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 1

Released in June, ‘This Far South’, Tommy Prine’s debut, has been one of my albums of the summer. It’s been a constant soundtrack to my lazy days and long evenings. Co-produced by Gena Johnson and Ruston […]

Track Premiere: The Morning Yells “Natural Feel”

September 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Morning Yells is an American band based in the Beach Cities of Los Angeles. The band are led by siblings Phil and Laura Stancil, and The Morning Yells have released two LPs, two EPs, as […]

Video: King Creosote “Blue Marbled Elm Trees”

September 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Blue Marbled Elm Trees’ by King Creosote is utterly hypnotic. Layers of swirling sounds rise up to the cosmos in an epic sweep of song; moving, stirring, adventurous, leaving us spellbound. Beginning dreamily, the song grows […]

Teenage Fanclub “Nothing Lasts Forever”

September 20, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 1

Scottish quintet find themselves in a reflective mood for their 11th studio release. As the title might indicate there is a sense of taking stock for the new album by Teenage Fanclub, perhaps that is not […]

Video: Passenger “Life’s For The Living” (Feat. Foy Vance – Anniversary Edition)

September 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

We are huge fans of Passenger around these parts and it’s hard to believe that it’s eleven years ago now that Mike Rosenberg released his breakthrough album ‘All The Little Lights’. The years leading up to […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

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