2023 – Page 390 – Americana UK

Interview: Jeb Loy Nichols pays homage to Woody Guthrie and his dad’s love of bluegrass

January 10, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Why Wales is similar to Missouri and the joy of first hearing Tony Joe White. It is difficult to think of an artist who is a better embodiment of Americana UK than Jeb Loy Nichols, who […]

Calista Garcia “Kalamazoo” – exuberant rock and roll influences

January 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Now Calista Garcia does mention in this song that she’d like to run all the way to Kalamazoo. Which sounds like a long way – and might be if it’s measured from New York where Calista […]

AUK’s Bluegrass Briefs

January 10, 2023 Tim Martin 0

My colleague Paul Kerr started reporting on the Albums and EPs which don’t make the cut for a full review with his Short Cuts recently. But there is an area of Americana that sits on its […]

artwork for Barclay James Harvest album, Everyone Is Everybody Else

The First Time: Graeme Tait – Barclay James Harvest, Sheffield City Hall, 28th September 1977

January 10, 2023 Graeme Tait 4

The past is a puzzling acquaintance, sharing as it does all of the most momentous experiences of life’s journey whilst forever travelling in the opposite direction, each day carrying our memories just a little further from […]

Ash Gray and the Burners “Live 55”

January 10, 2023 FredArnold 1

Live versions from the Ash Gray catalogue, re-imagined by a rocking red hot band. Well, welcome to some very slick, excitingly played live country rock… from Sheffield! Think early Poco, or the Flying Burrito Brothers, or […]