2023 – Page 341 – Americana UK

Track Premiere : Eric Silverman “Ride On”

February 23, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The second album from Eric Silverman, ‘Stay In It,’ can truly claim to be desert rock, as it was recorded in the tiny high desert outpost of Landers, California. It’s an album that, in 2020, had to […]

Video Premiere: Whitney Walker “Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs”

February 23, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s a deep sense of sadness at the heart of ‘Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs’, the latest single from Portland’s Whitney Walker. The song references a quote from the priest at his cousin’s wedding, a […]

Classic Americana Albums: Mary Gauthier “Filth and Fire”

February 22, 2023 Rick Thorn 2

The opening lines of ‘Walk Through the Fire’ the first track on this 2002 album perfectly sum up its feel and tone ‘’In the darkness, it finds me, the terrible fire. It doesn’t matter how I […]

Ron Sexsmith “Vivian Line”

February 22, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0

Mayor of Melody Town, Ontario re-elected for the 17th time. Americana songwriting has a history. Perhaps more than any other genre of popular song, the annals of whatever it is that presents as Americana are littered […]

The First Time: Richard Parkinson – Magna Carta & Gillian McPherson, Carlisle Market Hall, September 1971

February 22, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

At some point in the late 1960s the live music scene changed from one where the bands played long tours through many cities and towns to one where they did shorter tours focused on the major […]