2023 – Page 315 – Americana UK

Video: The Hope, The Fear “Hotel Haigh”

March 16, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the absorbing new single from multi-instrumentalist Alex Fletcher, who performs under the pseudonym The Hope, The Fear. In ‘Hotel Haigh’, the ramshackle old hotel is a metaphor for the human mind, in which ideas, […]

Classic Americana Albums: Drive-By Truckers “The Dirty South”

March 15, 2023 Andy Davidson 3

From 2001 up until 2005 the Drive-By Truckers were a huge, powerful and overwhelming force. A juggernaut. They aggressively, yet eloquently gave a voice to the blue collar South. People at the whim of capitalist forces […]

Track Premiere Natalie Padilla “Prairie Flax”

March 15, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Wednesday afternoon – and we have a cracking set of tunes for our occasional Tracks sans vocals section. Natalie Padilla is a highly accomplished fiddle player – and also an established classical violinist, holding a bachelor […]

The Nude Party “Rides On”

March 15, 2023 Alan Fitter 0

Possibly more rocky, psych-folk than americana, The Nude Party’s third album sounds as if it was recorded in a time gone by. There’s a band called Big Daddy whose conceit is that they were abducted by […]

The First Time: Guy Lincoln – The Pink Fairies, The Marquee Club, London, 3rd August 1976

March 15, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0

Memory and the memories that are associated with it is a strange and wonderful thing right? This ‘First Time’ series is all about memory and memories and in it we have shared in of some our […]