2023 – Page 257 – Americana UK

Something for the long weekend: Billy Bragg “Take Down the Union Jack”

May 5, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

“Take down the Union Jack It clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperor’s old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the eighties When the great and the good […]

Lauren Barth “Durango” – may as well drive through the night

May 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

If Lauren Barth is not on your music radar then this song should switch you on to someone who is a rare talent. ‘Durango‘ is a song for which the term epic was coined, it’s a […]

Ewan MacColl “A Man’s A Man For A’ That” – rank is but the guinea’s stamp

May 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Why would we be thinking of Burns this Friday? Oh, who knows? For some reason though we couldn’t help but recall: “For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Their dignities, an’ a’ that, The pith o’ Sense […]

Fruit Bats “A River Running to Your Heart”

May 5, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0

Gorgeous latest from the hardest-working man in indie-folk. ‘A River Running to Your Heart’ is a low-key beauty of a record, a small and lovely triumph for a too often despondent and agitated world. It is […]

Live Review: Bronwynne Brent, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Café, Glasgow – 27th April 2023

May 5, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Three years after it was meant to go ahead, Bronwynne Brent hit Glasgow’s Glad Café to fulfil a date which was nixed due to Covid, the singer having to grab a fast cab back to Mississippi […]