2024 – Page 392 – Americana UK

Thea Gilmore “Thea Gilmore”

January 5, 2024 FredArnold 2

Thea Gilmore sheds the Afterlight and emerges as her own person in fascinating change of direction. Thea Gilmore is something of a national treasure, as she has produced about 20 albums in the last twenty-five years, […]

Tom Cheshire Band “I Can’t Hold On” – Still trying to though

January 5, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

We like a good pun, so had to smile that producer Randy Michael had lovingly dubbed the sound of today’s song “Johnny Clash” – rightfully pinning down that the sound evokes a combination of Joe Strummer […]

Video: Laena Myers “Give ‘Em Hell”

January 5, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Give ‘Em Hell’ is the recent single from LA singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Laena Myers. It’s an absorbing, dreamy song that was written six months after Myers’ father passed away. She explains: “We were very close. One […]

Interview: Terra Lightfoot on hiking and “Healing Power”

January 4, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother Maybelle Carter and a Gibson SG called Veronica. While the surname may be familiar, Terra Lightfoot is a hard-working sing-songwriter and guitarist from Canada who is known for the time she spends […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Fred Arnold

January 4, 2024 FredArnold 8

So, my initial list of candidates for this enterprise, drawn purely from memory without any prompts, added up to 35 artists. Then I went to the prompts (my music collection). That brought the number up to […]