Unboxing the 'HOW TO PLAY AMERICANA' kit | English Folk Music supplement | in 4K 

Andy, for $3 bucks more you could have gotten the "DE-LUX KIT" , which comes with a harmonica! 🤠

Publicly Schooled English Folk, singing about the 'Toil' is the real one.

Cracked at "only the king can eat you" 🤣. Get better soon.

This is what RU-vid is all about, or rather, what's it's meant to be about. At least to me. Home videos of people having fun.

This was hilarious, pure comedy.

My Canadian version was the same except it advises me to sing a verse in French. Leonard Cohen is laughing somewhere..

😂😂😂 oh man I lost it at “the badger” 😂😂

In Avantguard Americana Progfolk that we play in our village here in East Belgium traditionally we also add steeldrums in a microtanal tuning.

If Andy has got the lurgi, I wonder if this could be his swansong? [pun intended] More comedic rants please Andy!

"Well where did that come from, then???" LMAO!

Lyric suggestions: British folk music: As I went out one morning, in the merry month of May, a maiden I did spy (pronounced “spoi”). Americana: Stuff about levees, creeks, bayous etc.

Have you ever listened to Allison Kraus & Unioon Station? Some of the later records. See if you can play one single tune on any of those records. Good luck, with or without the hat.

More like Englishana!! "Doing stuff with cows" 😂😂😂

Too much fun! Haha! Your brit accent really makes it sound authentically Amerciana. - "Doing stuff with cows" - "Dressed in red they want the foxy dead" Brilliant! hahahaha! Thx for the entertainment!

A Masterclass!

Is that the Roger Waters relux kit? Granchester if seashell and stone all rolled into one. Just need a few covid coughs and other body noises, and you could go global. 😂

What a song 😂

Add a bottle of malt and throw the thing into DADGAD for authentic Scottish folk music. Therein you’ll find the basis of the blues. 😂

The finest practioners of 'Americana' has to be Gary Louris and his compadres The Jay Hawks. Ostensibly becauase Gary has professed the British Invasion was a significant influence on his musical landscape.

Andy, you've brought me to tears. I'm on the floor and my stomach hurts. Hysterical! Get well soon.

That was funny 😂

Andy, you're so funny !!! "trop drôle" in french....

We need a non-covid version, but that's great that you felt possessed! 😂

If this is indicative I can't wait for your next album.

Funniest thing since Kenny Everett’s Bee Gee kit.

Hope you're feeling better Andy. Even when you're under the weather, you still remain over the top and ahead of the curve.

If I were putting the Americana kit together, I would have included a plaid shirt and suspenders instead of the waistcoat. Also a paste-on big, bushy fake beard.

Had a coffee down the nostrils moment when you went into the badger verse! I think I was overcome with the musics sheer authenticity!

THANK YOU. 💌 I swear if I hear one more gd song about a train I might throw myself under one. Or whiskey or ramblin' or outlaws. WELL DONE. (and get well soon).

This will definitely be included in the group of very informative videos on this channel along with best biscuits and prog mustache ranking.

Too funny 😂 and authentic 🤘🏽

Eat that Bill Bailey! Animals of England rules...thanks for the laff Andy I needed cheering up this morning! Re the 4k test the pic quality looks great....and hope you get better soon!

You covered from Bob Dylan to Mark Knopfler! Well done! Hope you get well soon……👍

Get well soon man love your videos my grand father was British

Andy looks like you're having a great time doing this video. 😁👍🏾💯🎶

Get well soon, better get you some grits. Very funny video. Thanks Andy.

Andy's Guide to Polka. Germanicana I guess. As long as there's beer involved I'm okay with it.

Feel better soon Andy

I believe my respect for you has multiply to the power of 3 I've been looking for someone to fill in the shoes of Arlo Guthrie has an American I am truly truly impressed I think you have found your true calling in music pentangle anymore my God you are superb I wasn't really sold on all the Americana and British Folk but you have reached out and touched my soul I apologize I'm there with you now

Hilarious! This is what I love to do as well sometimes - just fooling around with weird lyrics and cool melodies on these chords that you can just do anything with. Sometimes something useful comes out of it like your hunting swan song :D Get well soon!

Thank you Andy for such practical advice!

Oh, my. Andy, I hope that you recover quickly from the Covid. Loved the video!

😅 Love it.. your best yet Andrew.. you should go solo as The Yodelling Pirate 😂

This is so the local music scene open mic night. Cowboy chords ago go.

Perhaps a ballad to the unfeasibly small waistcoat?

The greatest line that I have ever heard it's probably the one you just said the cheeky Fox brilliant absolutely brilliant I think I am in f****** love

This was one of the funniest vids I've had the pleasure of watching! Great stuff!

"The Night They Drove Ol' Kidderminster Down..." 🎼🎵🎶🎙️🪕 ☝️😎

This really reminded me of the “young ones” you’re old enough to remember them.

Haha, what a crackup... 👏👏👏 play Rocky Racoon 😎

Where else on RU-vid can you find an authentic royal subject strumming and singing tirelessly despite his afflictions in an honest and heartfelt attempt to master this ancient form of music? I just wish you could add a kilt and bagpipes and film in a castle. That would be awesome!

Love it Andy, you’re a true comedic talent. You sound a little like the FaceJacker character Dufraise Constantinople when you get exasperated 😂 The swan neck that only the King can break 😂

Best wishes for fast recovery. Get a lot of sun really helps

Andy - i couldn't have done this better…this kind of 'critic' runs deep with me, in that its (or ANYTHING) is so easy to parody. i often get lampooned for my disrespect. But its only just a joke, as you & i know. Just listen to 'Solitude' - Black Sabbath (On Master Of Reality). A two chord (English folky) tune i guess, not unlike your original (Americana) rendition. Go figure ! LOL. Paul. PS; as i most often don't listen to lyrics, or the meaning of same, i was always mystified of this (Black Sabbath) track, in amongst so much strong music on the album….for me, it seemed like a 'filler' - but what would i know ! LOL. LOVE your work !

I haven't laughed so much since the time you threw a Last Exit CD across the room.

Brilliant, heartfelt, hilarious.

Really funny! The low voice sounds like Mark Knopfler.

Funny one!

Hysterical! I hope it doesn't spoil the Bellowhead concert for me later this year.

Brilliant video Andy. Hope you get well soon mate.

I want the album...! 😂👏🤣

Comedy gold.

....the effects of COVID!! Good recovery, Andy!

I've checked the website and other kits from this company are: Learn Jacques Brel Classics Like "Je vous deteste" (beret included); Yes, Gates Of Delerium, polka-style; John Cage's 4'33" For Dummies. Thanks, and get well soon.

You should be on the stage. The next one leaves town in 10 minutes.

You're ready to collaborate with Allison Krauss! Feel better soon

4K HDR...looks good 👍

I can't wait

Priceless!! 😁

Best yet!

That covid medication is obviously strong!!!! 😂 I wonder if they do a jazz fusak kit??😅

Brilliant Andy ....loved it .feel better

He’s looking mighty Dust Bowl

Kenneth Williams did a folk singer character, on radio, I believe.

Hilarious!!

Ride them there cows Andy!

Funniest video ever! 😂

This was entertaining. Loved the lyrics.

Andy, I’m afraid they may have sent you a defective kit…. The 3 chords you need are C, D, G. Not F. And yes, a capo would be required if you want to play an F. I actually know a bluegrass musician who showed me how to play in drop D tuning… with TWO capos!! Imagine the ingenuity of this! Yours truly, an American Amateur Guitarist. ❤

I was digging early David St. Hubbins vibe with the Save the Swan Song 🦢 ✌

Question is to anyone, what genre do you suggest for someone brought up in western culture who wants to play largely acoustic and simple music?

COVID at this point? How retro. Great conceit and execution as usual, Andy.

It's like a B n' M Bargains Ry Cooder

Open your own micro brewery?

you give americana too much credit by playing an F...they would need a capo for that advanced musicianship.

What do you call or think of all the bands like The National or Arcade Fire who have lots of people on stage but with seemingly very little music happening. Is that some sort of americana?

Wow! Tour de Force!!

I want more yodeling dangBurnIt!

Keep tapping that spine, Andy, there's gold in them thar hills there is! Aaarh and begorrah I think I gonna sing a song bout a beaver in the mountains of the Great Achiever now. Inspired be I by swich mickle tydinges of bamboozle. Maybe the Legend of the Arindorondacktack Beaver Bear That Ate A Gallon of Mooses by the side of the flower mead. Alas and alack. Murie betide thee. Hale and good health upon the morrow good Sire.

Speaking of Americana, James Taylor wants his hat back.

Couple minutes in still waiting for Witchita Lineman, Hard Rains Gonna Fall. If you could read my mind (that's a song also) Dire Wolf maybe. But I like your videos Andy all of em including this one.

On the 22nd? "I will wait"

When does the tour start?

Nice chords!

Who’s that guy in the corner loading bullets into his six shooter ?

pretty good man😁

What talent! The Covid king strikes again!

Pretty good but maybe 4K destroys the effect... ;). Needs some good old grainy 16 mm, or even 8 mm. sounds more like a Syd Barret-y Robyn Hitchcock-y kind of thing than Americana. Just saying. Very nice!

Feel better, ANDY ….

YOUR FUNNY