Jonathan Aird

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The Lexington welcomed JP Harris back with his full band in tow, ready to give an evening of rocking country tunes in styles that predate the big-hat, big-arena styles of the Eighties. There would be honky-tonk, there would be outlaw styling, and there would be some filtering of the New Wave.

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

In the face of the question “What can I do?” former music therapist turned artist-activist Kyshona says, “Listen!” And that was the title of her 2020 album release, which resonated in all sorts of ways in those dark days. And arguably the dark days are back again – and so this release of a new acoustic recording of the closing song from that album couldn’t be more timely.

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

At first glance, it would seem that I have given myself no challenge here at all. Can’t live without it for Neil Young? Put down “After The Goldrush” or “Everyone Knows This is Nowhere”, and 90% of readers will nod their heads and say “Well, ok, but you should’ve said “Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere” or “Well, ok, but you should’ve said “After the Goldrush” depending on which I had plumped for.

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter.  Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, he contemplates the restless feeling of  continually being in the wrong place at the wrong time: “I feel like I don’t really belong / Head in the clouds and my body in the bed.”  Disassociation, with a hint of Harry Nilsson to it’s baroque pop beauty.

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

There must have been something in the air in the 2010s – Dylan was putting out his “Sinatra” albums, and Springsteen was recording songs for one of his “lost” albums – soon to be available in full in the seven album box set we discuss every time a new single appears to tease on or other of them. ‘Sunday Love‘ from “Twilight Hours” may well be the strangest Springsteen yet…what would the saviour of rock and roll sound like singing smooth, jazzy mid-20th-century pop?