2024 – Page 72 – Americana UK

Jett Holden “The Phoenix”

October 22, 2024 Guy Lincoln 0

First release on Black Opry Records resurrects Holden’s ‘Southern Gothic country’ The title of Jett Holden’s debut album is ‘The Phoenix’, a strikingly appropriate metaphor for the place at which he currently finds himself in his […]

Liv Wade “Slow Motion” – you can stop on a dime

October 22, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Toronto would like it known that it has a new talent to talk about, Liv Wade is a queer, two-spirit artist with Metis and Scandinavian roots, Liv’s family originally came from the Red River Metis Nation, […]

Video: Michelle Malone “Simple Life”

October 22, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Simple Life’, the new single from Michelle Malone, is a beautifully-crafted song that showcases her stunning voice. There’s a gorgeous purity to Malone’s vocal performance; her range is impressive and those fluttering higher notes pull the […]

artwork for Kasey Anderson album, To The Places We Lived

Kasey Anderson “To the Places We Lived”

October 21, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

It is said that a sequel rarely stands up to the original. Kasey Anderson shoots holes in that theory. Listening to Kasey Anderson for the first time, informed that this record will be the last of […]

Lucinda Williams “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Beatles go Americana

October 21, 2024 Jonathan Aird 3

We love it when something just pops up somewhat unexpectedly – and this take on the all-time number 2 Beatles song on the office iPod by Lucinda Williams is both unexpected and epically good. It’s taken […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2024