GospelbeacH

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2024: Part Two, 10-1

December 18, 2024 Mark Whitfield 6

Earlier in the week we counted down numbers 20-11 of my standout tracks from 2024 – a mixture of Westcoast powerpop, indie-folk and straight down the line Americana, which of course is the raison d’etre of […]

GospelbeacH “Wiggle Your Fingers”

May 2, 2024 Peter Churchill 2

Sad to see them go but GospelbeacH go out on a high. It was almost ten years ago GospelbeacH debuted with ‘Pacific Surf Line.’ It was the first of a number of releases that mined the […]

GospelbeacH announce final album “Wiggle Your Fingers”

February 15, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

And it’s goodbye from them with a final flourish. Los Angeles group GospelbeacH have announced details of their final album “Wiggle Your Fingers” which arrives on 26th April through Curation Records. The new full-length recording finds […]

GospelbeacH “It’s Too Late” – man, it’s never too late, you know?

April 4, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

After a detour into bubblegum covers with last years ‘Jam Jam EP‘, GospelbeacH have returned to wonderfully sparkly new music. Adding Luther Russells (from labelmates Those Pretty Wrongs and previously The Freewheelers) pretty 12 string and […]

Various Artists “Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal”

November 15, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

A wonderful and lovingly compiled tribute to the late Neal Casal. Neal Casal’s death, by his own hand, in 2019, reverberated throughout the musical community which Americana UK inhabits. Never a household name, never lauded with […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers