Jonathan Aird

Junior Sisk “Up There On The Hillside” – Dark tales of murder

June 28, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Junior Sisk’s new song ‘Up There On The Hillside‘ draws on the darker side of tradition for a chilling recounting of a murder ballad. It’s a song that came together quickly, as Junior Sisk explains “I […]

Willi Carlisle “Vanlife” – does the American dream seem to be going wrong?

June 27, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

With the sound of a jolly story in the style of Cash’s ‘Boy Named Sue‘ or ‘One Piece at a Time‘, Willi Carlisle takes a satirical scalpel to the unravelling of the American Dream – surely […]

Honey Cellar “Curtain” – drop the safety…

June 27, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

This desperate looking bunch of dangerous reprobates are Honey Cellar, a folk-rock group with pop and indie sensibilities that hail out of Chicago (which we’re contractually obliged to acknowledge as being “my kind of town”), and […]

Track Premiere: Simon Flory “Don’t Shake me Lucifer”

June 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, this is a total and utter joy and what a great honour for Americana UK to premiere Simon Flory’s version of the great Roky Erickson’s ‘Don’t Shake Me Lucifer‘. Could the classic garage rock song […]

Trampled By Turtles “It’s So Hard To Hold On” – Hold me now….

June 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Trampled By Turtles has announced the release of their forthcoming album Alpenglow on October 28th (Thirty Tigers). Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Alpenglow is the Minnesota-based sextet’s tenth album. And, wouldn’t ya know it, today’s song is from that […]