2024 – Page 110 – Americana UK

Kasey Chambers “Backbone”

September 18, 2024 Peter Churchill 0

Aussie country icon shows her class and maturity in a wonderfully varied collection. 25 years on from her 1999 debut ‘The Captain’, Australian Kasey Chambers returns with studio album number 13. ‘Backbone’ is a joint release […]

John Murry and Michael Timmins “A Little Bit Of Grace And Decay”

September 18, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Joy and beauty abound in revisited classic Gothic Americana songs. John Murry’s three solo recordings add up to one of the most consistently excellent song catalogues of 21st-century songs and are probably the prime definition of […]

Track Premiere: Jerry Douglas “What Might Have Been”

September 18, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

‘What Might Have Been’ is a haunting new song from Jerry Douglas’ upcoming album ‘The Set‘ which will be out on Friday. An instrumental ode to regret, ‘What Might Have Been‘ is lifted by Aoife O’Donovan’s […]

Video: Tess Parks “Crown Shy”

September 18, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the latest single from Canadian singer-songwriter Tess Parks. Now based in London, Parks wrote ‘Crown Shy’ alongside long-term band-member and collaborator Ruari Meehan. There are hypnotic, dreamy layers and the combination of Parks’ and Meehan’s […]

More People Should Really Know About: Cindy Lee Berryhill

September 17, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

If folk know the name Cindy Lee Berryhill it’s most probably due to her role in the 1980s’ Anti Folk movement in New York’s Lower East Side. It’s rumoured that it was Berryhill who coined the […]