Americanrootsuk.com

  • HOME
    • 2012 Newspage
    • Links
    • Contact
    • Album submissions
  • 2012 C.D. Reviews
    • May 2012>
      • Hatful of Rain - Way up on the Hill
      • Karen Collins & the Backroads Band - No Yodelling on the Radio
      • Screen Door Porch - The Fate And The Fruit
      • The Lonesome Sisters - Deep Water
      • Otis Gibbs - Harder Than Hammered Hell
      • Garron Frith - Away From The Bright Lights
      • The Cactus Blossoms
      • Six Mile Grove - Secret Life In A Quiet Town
      • Jim Byrne - The Innocent
    • April>
      • Amanda Shires - Carrying Lightning
      • Brock Zeman - Me Then You
      • Nathan Bell - Black Crow Blue
      • Cary Hudson - Mississippi Moon
      • Rachel Harrington and the Knock Outs
      • The Boomswagglers - The Bootleg Beginnings (from the shack out back)
      • Bob Wooton & Six Mile Grove - Guaranteed Cash
      • Maria Doyle Kennedy & Kieran Kennedy – The Storms Are On The Ocean
      • Steel Wheels - Lay Down Lay Low
      • Black Twig Pickers - Ironto Special
    • March>
      • Lincoln Durham - The Shovel vs The Howling Bones
      • Two Dollar Bash - New Adventures
      • Woody Pines - You Gotta Roll
      • Hillfolk Noir - Radio Hour
      • The James Low Western Front - Whiskey Farmer
      • Shurman - Inspiration
      • John Lilly - Cold Comfort
      • Rosco Levee - Final Approach To Home
      • June Star - Slow Dance
      • The Dirt Daubers - Wake Up Sinners
      • The Proposition - King Snake Devil Shake
    • February>
      • Hillfolk Noir - Skinny Mammy's Revenge
      • The Coloradas
      • Ziggy Moonshine and the Bootleggers - Music in the Key of Z
      • The Kentucky Struts - The Year of the Horse
      • Laura Repo - Get Yourself Home
    • January>
      • Sons of Fathers
      • Old Tire Swingers
      • Rebecca Pronsky - Viewfinder
      • The Gourds - Old Mad Joy
      • The Carper Family - Back When
      • Jason T. Lewis - The Fourteenth Colony
      • Charlie Parr - Keep Your Hands On The Plow
      • Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks - Heartsick
  • GIGS
    • 2012 Gigs
    • Gig Photos
    • Gig Reviews
    • Archive
  • Live Gigs Video
    • Cahalen Morrison & Eli West (07-11-11)
    • Charlie Parr
    • Eilen Jewell
    • Frank Fairfield / Hatful of Rain
    • Andy Irvine / 30lbs of Bone
  • Radio Playlists
    • Current week
    • 2012 Archive
    • 2011 Archive
    • 2010 Archive
  • LOST HIGHWAY
    • Lost Highway poster page
  • Current Playlist/Quickie Reviews
    • May 2012
    • April 2012
    • March 2012
    • February 2012
    • January 2012
  • A History of American Roots Music
    • Chapter 1>
      • chapter 1 - music A
      • chapter 1 - music B
      • chapter 1 - music C
    • Chapter 2>
      • Chapter 2 - Music A
      • Chapter 2 - Music B
    • Chapter 3>
      • Chapter 3 - Music A
    • Chapter 4>
      • Chapter 4 Music
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 8
  • A History of the Blues
    • chapter 1
    • chapter 2>
      • Chapter 2 - Music
    • chapter 3>
      • Chapter 3 - Music
    • chapter 4
    • chapter 5
    • chapter 6
    • chapter 7
    • chapter 8
    • chapter 9
    • chapter 10
    • chapter 11
    • chapter 12
  • Video
  • MUSIC PLAYER
  • Features
    • Defining Country Rock!
    • Curst Sons
    • Southern Tenant Folk Union
  • Recommended Albums
  • CULT ARTISTS!
  • REVIEWS ARCHIVE
    • 2010>
      • Albums of 2010>
        • 2010 C.D Reviews
    • 2011>
      • C.D and Book Reviews>
        • December 2011 C.D Reviews>
          • Ugly Valley Boys - Double Down
          • Jerry Leger - Traveling grey
          • The Damn Quails - Down the hatch
          • The Crooked Brothers - Lawrence, where's your knife?
          • Sweetback Sisters - Looking for a fight
          • Girls Guns and Glory - Sweet Nothings
          • Elliott Brood - Days Into Years
        • November 2011 C.D Reviews>
          • John Prine - The singing mailman delivers
          • Prairie Acre - Roll up your sleeves
          • David Serby - Poor man's poem
          • Cahalen Morrison & Eli West - The holy coming of the storm
          • Lydia Loveless - Indesructible Machine
          • Ollabelle - Neon Blue Bird
          • Rat Trapper - Tub Life
          • Blueflint - Maudy Tree
          • Case Hardin - Every Dirty Mirror
          • Lovisa Stahl - #1
          • New Country Rehab
        • 2011 Abums of the Year!
        • 2011 C.D reviews index (Jan-Nov)
        • 2011 C.D Reviews
        • 2011 quickie reviews!
        • Book reviews
  • Playlist Archive!
    • Played in December 2011
    • Played in November 2011
    • Played in October 2011
    • Played in September 2011
    • Played in August 2011
    • Played in July 2011
    • Played in June 2011
  • News Page Archive
    • 2011 News Page
    • 2010 News Page
  • Chapter 3 - Music
Picture
Playlist for August 2011
(The star ratings are not set in stone and could change as/if the albums get listened to more, unless thay have already been reviewed on the site!)

Richard Buckner - Our blood (2011) 2.5**
Musikanto - Sky of dresses (2011) 3***
Ry Cooder - Pull up some dust and sit down (2011) 3.5***

Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses (2011) 4.5****
Guy Clark - Songs and stories (2011) 4****
Richmond Fontaine - The high country (2011) 2.5**
Don Gallardo - When the daylight whispers darling (2011) 3***
13th Floor Elevators - The albums collection (2011)
(4 x c.d box set) 4****

The Jayhawks - Mockingbird time (2011) 2.5**
Joe Ely - Satisfied at last (2011) 3.5***
Don Gallardo - Sweetheart, Radio, Revolution, etc. (2009) 3***
Various Artists - 35 years of Stony Plain (2011) 3.5***
Society - A crooked mile (2011) 4****
Winchester Brothers - Black star day (2010) 2**

Old Lost John - Bringing down the sky (2011) 4****
Larry and his Flask - All that we know (2011) 3***
Charlie Parr - Cheap wine (2011) 4****
Beau Brummels - Bradleys Barn
(2011 two c.d re-release of their 1968 album) 4****

The Crows - One flew over the cornfield
(2011 Re-release of their 1991 album) 2.5**
Digney Fignus - Last planet on the left (2011) 3***
Cody Canada and the Departed - This is Indian land (2011) 3.5***

Dawes - Nothing is wrong (2011) 3.5***
Greg Trooper - Upside-down Town (2010) 4****
The Black Swans - Don't blame the stars (2011) 2.5***
Deep Dark Woods - The place I left behind (2011) 3.5***
Patrolled By Radar - Be happy (2011) 4****
Whiskey Folk Ramblers - ..... and there are devils (2010) 4****
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Peyton on Patton
                 (2011) 4****
Blueflint - Maudy Tree (2011) 4****
Bettysoo and Doug Cox - Across the borderline: Lie to me
(2011) 3.5***
The Men They Couldn't Shave - It's just restlessness
(2010) 3***