Ewan Lury

Dexy “Sleeping Through Summer”

February 21, 2022 Ewan Lury 1

Dexy’s album works to expand the ever-changing Americana genre but achieves mixed results. Dexy’s latest album, ‘Sleeping Through Summer’, takes you back to the days of bar-room punk music inspired by early 70s Rolling Stones and […]

Raine Hamilton “Brave Land”

February 3, 2022 Ewan Lury 0

An LP that starts well but struggles as it goes on. Raine Hamilton’s chamber-folk album has moments of real quality, but also moments where she seems to lose sight of what she wants the album to […]

Alicia Stockman “These Four Walls”

December 21, 2021 Ewan Lury 0

An album that has its moments but doesn’t break boundaries. Alicia Stockman’s ten-track debut album ‘These Four Walls’ is a solid opening to a promising solo career. The album begins with the bouncy western, ‘Stay Between […]

Artwork for Kirby Brown album "Break Into Blossom"

Kirby Brown “Break Into Blossom”

November 1, 2021 Ewan Lury 0

Kirby Brown takes us into a new wave of Americana music with a mixture of success and failure. Kirby Brown’s latest album, “Break into Blossom“, is an intimate and soothing record that uses a wonderful mixture […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Avett Brothers “True Sadness”

September 29, 2021 Ewan Lury 0

As someone who only took a step into the Americana scene in the last 5 or 6 years, my latest choice for a Classic Americana Album is what I’d describe as a modern classic. I first […]