2023 – Page 331 – Americana UK

Waiting For Brenda “Punks Not Dead (It’s Gone Country) – the well trod path

March 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

We continue our unofficial Australiana Day with a song from the debut album from Brisbane’s Waiting For Brenda. The album’s called ‘Friendly Disposition‘ and this song pays acknowledgement to a well known path for many Americana […]

Video: Parker Millsap “Running on Time”

March 2, 2023 Ed Donnelly 0

Parker Millsap examines the rhythms of life in ‘Running on Time’. The video features clips of natural landscapes interspersed with character studies of several people in filmed portraiture. Fingerpicked guitars and subdued drums drive the song […]

Whitehorse “I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying”

March 2, 2023 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘Im Not Crying, You’re Crying,’ Whitehorse show how complex Americana/Canadiana music can be. Whitehorse, or the Canadian duo comprising Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, are no newcomers to Americana, or Canadiana (the same thing?) since […]

Billy Bragg to release fourteen disc box set to celebrate 40 years of music

March 2, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Punk rocker, folk singer, Skiffle aficionado, protest singers’ protest singer, lefty polemicist, author, singer and AUK favourite Billy Bragg will release a career-spanning compendium entitled ‘The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023‘ on 27th October on Cooking Vinyl. […]

Meg Baird “Furling”

March 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Travelling beyond the ghosts of previous bands. Meg Baird will, of course, always be associated with Espers – and that’s nothing to be ashamed of or to regret. They towered over the psych-folk revival of the […]