Our week by week chain of americana chosen by AUK writers
Last week’s Chain Gang used Folkway Records to serve as a link to Nancy Dupree from Lucinda Williams, so I thought I might make use of the same common factor in a slightly more roundabout way. […]
Lucinda Williams, the focus of last week’s Chain Gang released her debut album,‘Ramblin’ on My Mind’ in 1979 for Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, recorded an eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional music from […]
Let’s counterbalance pain with pleasure. Americana UK’s Chain Gang seems to have disappeared down a rabbit hole of drug addiction and pain, so I have attempted to pull it right out and place it back on […]
Okay, so when it comes to the thread that is the AUK Chain Gang there are occasions when liberties have to be taken, boundaries pushed, the imagination stretched, etc. And so it came to pass that […]
In last week’s Chain Gang we had Johnny Cash cavorting and killing around the wild west and, at the end of his song, ‘Cocaine Blues’, advising the listener to “lay off that whiskey and let that […]
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