Dave Favours has just released his debut full length album Wet Suburban Sunday, that follows last years EP One Hand On The Wheel and it’s a great mix of country and rock with covers of The Rolling Stones, Ramones and The Saints thrown into the mix of originals. We’ll have a review of the album up shortly but … Continue reading
Katie Brianna released one of the best Americana albums in Australia last year. Dark Side Of The Morning is a record built on her wonderful voice that brings with it barrels of tears and heartache amid a certain uplifting resilience and strength. With wonderfully sympathetic instrumentation it’s a sweetly melancholic collection of songs that draws … Continue reading
Robert Ellis’ 2011 album Photographs caught many an ear with its efficient and emotive songwriting and guitar playing and gave him an international audience. The Lights From The Chemical Plant finds Ellis expanding his repertoire, stepping outside of the restraints of pure Americana to embrace pop elements, diverse country influences and lush production while still … Continue reading
Austin City Limits has been running for forty years as a TV series and it continues to showcase the finest music across a range of genres. Americana gets a great look-in with recent shows including Dawes, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves and Dale Watson. Here’s Willie Nelson playing the show’s pilot … Continue reading
Last year Dan Waters released his excellent solo LP La Vita E Bella to critical acclaim and he was rewarded with Best Country Album at the Age Music Victoria Awards. Waters has followed that up with a new EP under the name The Gulbransen Brothers, featuring Chad Mason of Wagons as his equal songwriting/sparring partner. Don’t Let The Music Stop … Continue reading
Lost Ragas are a new band based around the supremely talented Matt Walker, a songwriter, guitarist who I first discovered on his I Listen to the Night collaboration with Ashley Davies back in 1997. That was of course very much a blues-based record while this project marries the blues and country music. They released their … Continue reading
Mark Moldre continues in his quest to release a clip for every song on his 2013 LP An Ear To The Earth and this could be his best yet. Filmed amid the mid-renovation bricks and tiles of bandmates Jamie and Scott Hutchings’ childhood home the video perfectly complements the percussive elements of the song. Continue reading
Sydney songwriter Dave Favours is releasing his excellent new LP Wet Suburban Sunday this week and to accompany it he’s posted a great Jeff Siberry directed clip for the single Linda Marie featuring a Sasquatch and black and white footage of rivers, tunnels and train tracks. Continue reading
Nixon, released in 2000, was the turning point for the Nashville band led by Kurt Wagner. It was a richly ornate LP that layered soul music on the band’s Americana roots and to these ears it was an exotic, beautiful and utterly immersive record. Now Merge have given it the reissue treatment as the first … Continue reading
Rosanne Cash is currently doing the rounds of talk shows and radio sessions to promote her excellent new LP The River & The Thread. Here are two clips from a performance for KCRW at Apogee Studios. You can listen to the full session HERE Continue reading
The Weeping Willows have today unveiled the clip for the third single taken from their LP ”Till The North Wind Blows’. Continue reading
Ahead of his Australian tour with Tift Merritt you can check out the 20 minute set Jason Isbell played last September at radio station KEXP in Seattle, WA. Songlist: Flying Over Water Live Oak Different Days Stockholm Continue reading
Here’s the latest video from Dan Waters‘ acclaimed album La Vita E Bella which won Best Country Album at The Age Victoria Genre Awards last year. Ah, guilt and shame, two of the age-old corner posts of great country music. Continue reading
Fanny Lumsden and her band The Thrillseekers did a live session at Cleveland’s late in 2013. Here’s a great new song Your Rattle & Your Roll, gently overflowing with that magical melodicism that Lumsden seems to fill each song with. It’s set to be a big year for the band with plans to record and … Continue reading
Here’s an excellent four hour documentary detailing the history of Country Music including the Carter Family, the Louvin Brothers, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Ray Price, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and more. Sit back, pour yourself a drink (or three), watch and learn… Continue reading
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