Albums

On Play One More Tom Russell celebrates the songs of Ian & Sylvia Tyson, the Canadian folk duo who were there at the start of the Greenwich Village folk boom and who also were early starters in the country rock stakes in the early seventies.

Musically tied to the dry and dusty landscape of his adoptive Texas home, Put it Together reinforces Jim Keaveny’s position as one of the most authentic dust bowl Americana artists currently riding the trail.

London-based songer songwriter Nigel Brown returns with Looking For The Rising Sun, his eighth self-released album.

Deservedly likened to All Things Must Pass in its scope and ambition, Brilliant Light is assuredly Danny & The Champions of the World’s masterpiece, an aural aurora borealis that will illuminate your musical life. 

Good Morning Sky sees Katie Spencer off to a flying start. Her debut mini-album has shades of John Martyn and also offers a broader palette which suggests an artist that is willing to explore.

Braids is an album of memory and homage, tooled and re-tooled like a worn keepsake, and Japanese-British singer-songwriter Eiks is an inventive creator who relishes nostalgia and excels in the preservation of life’s tiniest moments.

John Murry’s ‘A Short History of Decay’ is a gripping album, sonically adventurous, by an iconoclastic artist who made a career out of transforming tragedy and hardship into stark beauty.

Sarah Jane Scouten is another sterling example of the top grade Americana coming out of Canada as she ably demonstrates on her latest album When The Bloom Falls From The Rose.

With an already solid reputation established on the UK folk festival circuit, Tilly Moses’ new album ‘Alight & Adrift’ should firmly plant her feet on the ladder to the genres upper rungs.

Hannah Aldridge returns with ‘Gold Rush’, a strong second album that is unquestionably one of the best Americana albums of the year,  she’s struck the mother lode.

If there is such a thing as classic American songwriting, you wouldn’t necessarily expect it to be embodied on the debut album of a singer of Armenian descent, born in Syria. Bedouine’s album is, for want of a better word, classic.

With Nashville Sound, both Jason Isbell and his band are sounding both loose and hugely assured. From roots-rock to alt-country and the politically charged he delivers a broad musical horizon.