@AMERICANSmusic Return for Jan/Feb 2018 Tour Debut album "I'll Be Yours" out now via @LooseMusic

THE AMERICANS

Return for Jan/Feb 2018 Tour

Debut album I'll Be Yours out now via Loose

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Listen to title track "I'll Be Yours"

"The whiskey-soaked rockers and gritty ballads of their debut LP roll with hell-bent immediacy, as frontman Patrick Ferris straddles primal ferocity and haunted vulnerability." Uncut 8/10

"Forward-thinking roots rock in the vein of Bruce Springsteen." Evening Standard (Virtually Famous)

"Their primal rock'n'roll roots ground this album and vocalist Patrick Ferris's voice bleeds, pleads and yearns." The Mirror ★★★★


THE AMERICANS are delighted to return to the UK in January to play Celtic Connections and the UK Americana Music Awards, as well as club shows in Newcastle, Oxford and Leeds. Full dates as follows:

SAT 27 JAN - Newcastle, The Cluny 

SUN 28 JAN - Glasgow, Celtic Connections @ Oran Mor

TUE 30 JAN - Oxford, The Bullingdon

WED 31 JAN - London, Americana Fest UK (Venue TBC)

SAT 3 FEB - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

Los Angeles quartet The Americans released I’ll Be Yours earlier this year. Having started out as a roots band enthralled by pre-war American country and blues, they have evolved into a blistering amalgamation of those influences, injected with a fiery blue collar rock’n’roll attitude, absorbing and reconfiguring the history of American music from Chuck Berry and Tom Waits to Bruce Springsteen. They named themselves after the controversial photo series by Robert Frank, which was first published in 1958 with a foreword by Jack Kerouac. Like Frank's photos, The Americans' songs are miniature biographies, intimate and empathic portraits of individuals that leave much unsaid.

In addition to critical acclaim from the press, the record was also championed by key record stores – Rough Trade made it one of their Albums Of The Month – “From crooning laments, rich and glorious with sweeping sweet orchestrated lushness to disheveled, bluesy, rocking, frantic party time hoedowns, this album lifts you up and gently drops you down”.

The Americans were plucked from obscurity by Jack White, T Bone Burnett and Robert Redford to appear in the recent PBS/BBC4 series American Epic. Featuring artists such as Beck, Elton John, Nas, Willie Nelson, Alabama Shakes and many more, the film reconstructs the story of the first American music in the 1920s and re-assembled the recording apparatus that was used at the time. As experts in early music, The Americans were invited in to figure out the equipment and make the first recordings. Once the sessions were underway, they functioned as the house band, backing up various artists and suggesting songs to the filmmakers. Burnett was quoted as saying; “The Americans are part of this group, these genius 21st century musicians, that are reinventing American heritage music for this century. And it sounds even better this century.”

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