2023 – Page 97 – Americana UK

Promo photo from Otis Gibbs press kit. Used with permission.

More People Should Really Know About: Otis Gibbs

September 26, 2023 Kimberly Bright 0

By choosing singer-songwriter Otis Gibbs for this series, I don’t mean to downplay his accomplishments in any way. He certainly has a large fan base all over the world, but considering the really fine albums he […]

VERSIONS: “White Freightliner Blues”

September 26, 2023 Clint West 0

Unusually Townes Van Zandt’s ‘White Freightliner Blues’ first appeared on his ‘Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas’ album. So, in that same spirit I have chosen three live covers to feature on top of the […]

Track Premiere: Adam Lytle “Seeds Of Joy”

September 26, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Seeds Of Joy‘ is the third single from Adam Lytle’s new debut solo album ‘This Is The Fire‘ which is due out on October 20th), produced in collaboration with Jonathan Schenke (Liars, Parquet Courts) and Trey Pollard (Faye Webster, Kevin Morby). […]

Video Premiere: Malin Andersson “Ships in the Night”

September 26, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the lush new single from Swedish songwriter Malin Andersson. There’s a gentle rhythmic urgency at the beating heart of ‘Ships in the Night’, a hypnotic song that showcases the silken beauty of Andersson’s soft, […]

Americana Vinyl Treasures : Splinter “The Place I Love” – Dark Horse Records, 1974

September 25, 2023 Paul Russell 0

The seventies was such a rich decade for magnificent music that as a teenager listening to the radio gave me the opportunity to hear some sublime tracks. One of those was a modest 1974 hit by […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2023