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Pick of the Political Pops: Badly Drawn Boy “Year Of The Rat”

November 15, 2019 Paul Villers 0
Our regular reader is up to speed but in case you missed it we here at Americana-UK Towers are holding our decennial election and it is all going swimmingly. We are fully convinced that the incumbent […]
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Watch YouTube’s new Johnny Cash documentary

November 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
YouTube Originals have begun to stream the new documentary  ‘The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash’, which is a 90-minute film directed by Emmy- and Grammy-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny and which includes commentary from Emmylou Harris […]
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Sean McConnell announces UK dates for 2020

November 6, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Massachusetts-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Sean McConnell, who has appeared in the UK no less than three times during 2019 – opening shows with country singer Ashley Monroe, a performance at The Long Road festival and a recent […]
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Americana Music Association UK announce award nominees

November 5, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
What a night, and what a list.  In the upstairs music room at the surprisingly hard to find  Old Queens Head (“It’s just down from the Angel Tube, man, what do you mean you’re lost?“) and […]
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UK streaming services now include Neal Casal’s back catalogue

November 4, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
We found out over the weekend that selected solo albums of the late Neal Casal are now available on streaming services for the first time in the States, so we’ve checked and the good news is […]

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Power pop déjà vu, delivered with infectious youthful exuberance. Forty years ago, New Musical Express journalist David Quantick suggested that pop culture was becoming increasingly self-referential, to the point of exhaustion, ultimately predicting that “pop would […]
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Video Premiere: Brooklyn Del & The Revelators “You and I”

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Here’s the latest single from Portland, Oregon–based Brooklyn Del & The Revelators. You and I is a high-energy sonic blast that grabs your attention from the opening notes and doesn’t let go. There’s a wild sense […]

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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Ian Matthews, or Iain as he became later in his career, has been on a personal musical odyssey all his career which started when he was asked to be an original member of Fairport Convention by […]
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Something for the weekend: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway “She’ll Change”

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Well that, dear reader, is it from us for this week once again, and after you’ve battened down the hatches as it were, have a listen to the new song from California’s Molly Tuttle who pays […]
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Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies has created an exceptional debut album of lavish dreamy folk. Ohio-raised musician and songwriter Kramies Windt grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Fairview Park and began his career in the ’80s and […]

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