2024 – Page 292 – Americana UK

Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’ It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]

Video Premiere: Simon Stanley Ward “Another Page”

April 9, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is a fine song from Simon Stanley Ward and The Shadows of Doubt, artfully recorded during their recent album launch show at Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney. ‘Another Page’, originally taken from the group’s debut album […]

Shane Smith & The Saints “Norther”

April 8, 2024 Helen Jones 0

With their fourth album, the band mark themselves out as someone who can provide music with not only grit, but also real heart. Globally, 2020 may have been the year that felt to most like they […]

Classic Clips: Neil Young “A Man Needs a Maid” – Live at the BBC, 1971

April 8, 2024 Helen Jones 3

I first became enchanted by ‘A Man Needs A Maid’ when I heard a version of it on the 2007 Neil Young covers album ‘Borrowed Tunes II’. It’s a song of heartbreaking feeling as Young wrestles […]

Charlie Parr “Little Sun”

April 8, 2024 Rick Thorn 0

An offer of clarity in an often unclear world. In the liner notes to ‘Sloth’ which is the final track on the album Parr tells us:‘There is a part of the world that exists only in […]