2024 – Page 36 – Americana UK

Essentials: The Top 10 Nanci Griffith Albums

November 21, 2024 Clint West 5

Over the course of her career Nanci Griffith recorded 18 studio albums and 2 live albums. There were a couple of disappointments in amongst those but nowhere near enough to make this a straightforward task. Having […]

Interview: Joseph Shipp on digging deep, being free, for a while

November 21, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

He has always felt a bit like a chameleon. Joseph Shipp doesn’t have a routine backstory. You can trace his early musical touchstones to his father’s eclectic tastes: Neil Young, Leo Kottke, traditional Irish folk and […]

New Seth Lakeman album and new year tour on its way

November 21, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

He’s not fiddling whilst Rome burns… AUK favourite and Mercury nominated musician Seth Lakeman is set to release his self-produced new album “The Granite Way” on his own Honour Oak Records on 14th February 2025, with […]

Artwork for JP Harris album "JP Harris is a Trash Fire"

JP Harris “JP Harris is a Trash Fire”

November 21, 2024 Peter Thompson 2

Tremendous country record from handyman with a banjo, JP Harris. As backstories go, the JP Harris version is right up there. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, his family moved to Apple, California when he was seven years […]

Live Review: Mercury Rev + Nina Savary, The Junction, Cambridge, 8th November 2024

November 21, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Mercury Rev are out touring their excellent new album “Born Horses” which raises all sorts of questions – the new album has a refreshed musical palette to support the new songs delivered by Jonathan Donahue in […]