2023 – Page 396 – Americana UK

Sarah King “Blame It On The Booze” – it is no excuse

January 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Sarah King’s recent A/B sider release featured as the A-side ‘Blame it on the Booze‘ a song that the New England Music Awards Songwriter of the Year for 2021 explains is drawn from life. As she […]

Video: Zach Phillips “Curses”

January 4, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

The gorgeous landscapes of Southern California and Arizona, including the Cuyamaca Mountains, Palomar Mountain, Mount Lemmon, Mount Laguna and San Diego provide an arresting backdrop and accompaniment to the latest single from Zach Phillips. It’s an artfully […]

Interview: Andy Leftwich on what it takes to be the American fiddler

January 3, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Auditioning for Ricky Skaggs’ Rolling Thunder in front of a live audience of a thousand people. According to some accounts, Andy Leftwich is one of the most recorded musicians of the 21St Century as a member […]

Last Year’s Man “Time Is A Sparrow”

January 3, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

Textures of sound wrap a muse around the emotions. On listening to his collection of absorbing contemplation Tyler Fortier’s moniker undersells him. His ability to express his deepest thoughts with all their tales of what was, […]

AUK Chain Gang: The Daintees “Witches Ride”

January 3, 2023 Paul Russell 0

It’s fascinating to see how the AUK Chain Gang works – how we all pick up certain elements of the previous post, to conjure up musical memories for the next writer. Jonathan’s fascinating choice of Wolf […]