News
Sounds from beyond the Shed 236 “Disgust”
I’ve got to the stage where I try not to watch or listen to the news beyond 6 pm. It just means that I lie awake scrolling through the horrors and injustices that are seemingly all […]
Tom Waits
Tracks
Massive Attack & Tom Waits “Boots On The Ground” – a slight hint of disquiet
We can be quite confident that this is the first Massive Attack release to be featured on Americana UK, we wouldn’t go so far as to say that it is the very first mention of Massive […]
News
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are to be celebrated by artists such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro as part of […]
Features
The Song Remains: John Paul Hammond (1942 – 2026)
He expanded the blues genre for future generations of listeners and musicians. The world lost one of the last true champions of country blues on February 28th with the passing of John Paul Hammond, son of […]
Book Reviews
Paperback Riders: Southern Writers and the bleaker bits of Christmas
For 2023’s festive ‘Paperback Riders‘, we looked at ‘A Christmas Carol‘ and why it is the best-loved seasonal book in the USA, despite being so quintessentially English. Maybe it’s Charles Dickens’s ghosts and redemption themes, or […]