Rick Bayles

Mashville “Another Place” (Coastguard Records, 2018)

June 26, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

The UK Americana scene really is in very good shape right now. We’ve seen a number of excellent UK produced Americana albums so far this year and here’s another one. Mashville hail from Kent and their […]

Johnny “Chops” Richardson “Johnny Chops and the Razors” (Independent, 2018)

June 14, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

Johnny “Chops” Richardson is a member of established Texan outfit the Randy Rogers Band, where he’s held down the bass player role for the last sixteen years. Here he steps away from the bass guitar role […]

Various Artists “The Self Preservation Society” (ECC Records/Lush 2018)

June 7, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

What we have here is a batch of songs from the late sixties and early seventies re-interpreted by various artists, the majority of which are most closely associated with the Nu-Folk genre. This is a real […]

Glenn Frey “Above The Clouds” (Geffen/USM 2018)

June 6, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

Glenn Frey will forever be associated with the Eagles, the band he formed with Don Henley and which came to define Country Rock in the 1970s. Sadly, Glenn was one of the flurry of musicians that […]

Suburban Dirts “I Want Blood” (Old Jank Records, 2018)

May 28, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

This is an album that asks a big question. That question is, how does a band from Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, UK manage to get such an authentic Americana sound?! Listening to this album you would swear […]