2023 – Page 294 – Americana UK

Jeff Karoub “Between The Commas” – life is fleeting

April 3, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Between the Commas‘ is the title track of Jeff Karoub’s new album – his fifth album and his first full-length release since ‘Pieces Break‘ came out in 2019. It’s an album – and a song – […]

Video Premiere: The Scarlet Goodbye “The Ballad of Julie Ann”

April 3, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the latest single from The Scarlet Goodbye. ‘The Ballad of Julie Ann’ is full of unresolved tension and ominous notes. Beginning with guitar, the song then builds with layers of piano, warm strings, insistent […]

Something for the weekend: The Milk Carton Kids “Starshine”

March 31, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for us for another week dear reader and we leave you with another song to be released from the forthcoming album from California’s Milk Carton Kids, ‘I Only See The Moon‘, which will be […]

Peggy Seeger “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” – Subject singing

March 31, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

What an incredible thing – to be the inspiration for ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face‘ – and to hear it sung by it’s author Ewan McColl just the once – and that down […]

Waco Brothers “The Men That God Forgot”

March 31, 2023 Michael Macy 0

Country-Punk veterans hit the right note for today’s world. Billed as country-punk, the Waco Brothers new album is rooted in punk but its country influences are harder to hear. That said, ‘The Men God Forgot’ does […]

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

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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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