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3 days ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
Cole Quest and The City Pickers have a new album coming out on Jalopy Records on July 18th, it’s called ‘Homegrown‘ and it has some pretty high profile fans. Here’s an example: “Loved the record! It’s really good!” says Arlo Guthrie. Pretty impressive – Woody’s son. But then, Cole Quest is Woody’s grandson.
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4 days ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
Ewan Currie is a name you should know, as alongside a solo career he is also the frontman of The Sheepdogs (and BROS, but not that Bros, rather the duo band with his brother Shamus). ‘Crazy Streets‘ is taken from Ewan Currie’s second solo album ‘Strange Vacation‘ which was released at the end of May. The song is, for Currie, a description of the need to escape, as he says: “‘Crazy Streets’ came from that feeling of being imposed upon by the city I was living in. Life just felt chaotic.
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5 days ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
Hayes Carll has a new album ‘We’re Only Human‘ coming on August 8th and the sweet and floating ‘High‘ is the latest single from it.
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2 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
There’s an unrestrained romantic air to the latest single from Canada’s Suzie Ungerleider – and it’s no surprise since the tambourine and shimmering 12-string electric guitar-filled song which evokes a first meeting, country drives and the smell of flowers was written as a twentieth anniversary present to her husband.
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2 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
The new double-sided single from Amanda Fields and Megan McCormick has been released on Are and Be Recordings and features a pairing of reflective and slightly melancholic songs: ‘Redbird‘ and ‘I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages.‘ Both songs see the duo working with a fiddle player to add that certain something to the song – on ‘Redbird‘, it is Tatiana Hargreaves.
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2 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
What could be better than a new Mary Chapin Carpenter song? Tough one – but maybe a new Mary Chapin Carpenter song that presages a new album and features Anaïs Mitchell of…oh, you all know of what. Well, ‘Home Is A Song‘ is that very new song – it comes from Carpenter’s 17th album, ‘Personal History’, which was produced by Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath.
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2 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
You may guess from the photo’ that The Brothers Comatose are not a band of just brothers – but they were when they formed. Founded in 2008 by brothers Ben and Alex Morrison, the group features a line-up of talented musicians whose core of their sound is defined by tight harmonies, virtuosic string instrumentation, and a foot-stomping, back-porch spirit.
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3 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
The book’s first chapter captures the conflicted recording sessions, which in the end would yield only three cuts, which would make the final album. Dylan is portrayed as unhelpful, out of sorts, unhappy with suggestions and in no mood to take up the coincidentally present in the building Mick Jagger’s offer to do some backing vocals. The sessions completed, Dylan was slow to give his approval for the final track selection – a sign in retrospect that he was not happy with what he had.
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3 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
We recently told you about the new album from The Minus 5 – and here’s a track from that very upcoming release. It’s a song that shows Scott McCaughey’s influences – and if you don’t catch them straight away, then the Lyric Video below contains one or fifty hints.
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3 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird
What did we say? We said seven previously unreleased albums was almost bound to bring us seven previously unheard songs – and here’s the latest. ‘Repo Man’ kicks off the unreleased album ‘Somewhere North of Nashville’ and it is perhaps the biggest surprise of all the unheard album releases – it’s Springsteen country. Pedal steel, fiddle and honky-tonk piano…it’s all there. How did this happen?
