Helen Jones
Contributor at Americana UK
I like music and I sometimes write for @americanaUK
Articles
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1 week ago |
northwestend.com | Helen Jones
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was originally a 1994 film starring the sublime Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce. Some years later it was converted into a stage musical, and it is one of the campest but fun musicals around. Sale Nomads have this year brought it to Waterside Arts for a four-day run. The plot takes two drag queens and a transgender woman as they travel together across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs to perform at a resort there.
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2 weeks ago |
americana-uk.com | Helen Jones
A bright light of hopefulness shines from an album that finds promise even when things may look bleak. “Feels like a lifetime, I’ve been gone so long / But now I’m back again,” Scottish singer-songwriter Ally Kerr opens brightly on ‘Back Again’, the first track on his sixth studio album, “True Nature”.
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1 month ago |
americana-uk.com | Helen Jones
Offbeat and quirky, Jeffrey Lewis knows how to bring his unique voice to life. The album cover for New York native Jeffrey Lewis’s “The Even More Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis” is certainly one to raise eyebrows, but it’s actually more than just a naked couple walking down the street.
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1 month ago |
americana-uk.com | Helen Jones
A strong message is the beating heart of these songs that feel like a rallying battle cry to the apathetic left. Formed in 2019 in the South-West of England, The Jamestown Brothers’ music feels like it could fit under many of the sub-genres of folk and Americana, but by far the most interesting and unique of those might be punk-folk and honestly, it feels the truest to what they do.
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1 month ago |
americana-uk.com | Helen Jones
If there is a line that perfectly sums up the resilience needed by a gigging musician, the best one I’ve ever heard has to be “They don’t clap, you still bow” from Illinois-born, Texas country-sounding and based singer-songwriter Charlie Shafter’s song ‘Sea Wall’.
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