December 2024 – Page 3

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7

Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]

artwork for Kenneth Norum album "This Too Will Pass"

Kenneth Norum “This Too Will Pass”

December 20, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Reflections on a lost love from multi-talented Norwegian musician. Recorded in his home studio and self-produced, this is the second album from Norway’s Kenneth Norum. With all ten songs written in English, the lyrics largely focus […]

Video: Johnny 99 “It Can’t Be Christmas”

December 20, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Johnny 99 sings that it can’t be Christmas and we know what he means. His opening lines set the tone: “It’s that time of year for Christmas cheer // And it’s got me feeling low.” Johnny […]

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids on “Christmas in A Minor Key”

December 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

When it really comes down to these two or three weeks, you want the Nat King Cole of it all. Christmas carolling is a tradition where groups of people bundle up and go door to door […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Christmas Albums

December 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 7

When you think of Christmas, certain words pop into your head like visions of sugar plums. They evoke all the usual trappings of Christmas, words like snow, Santa, reindeer, jingle bells, ornaments, tinsel, lights. Well, it […]