February 2025 – Page 5

Track Premiere: Tobacco & Rose “Bride Of Suffering”

February 26, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A 30-year veteran of the Canadian music scene, Richard Moody has toured the world with such luminaries as The Wailin’ Jennys and Steven Fearing. Tobacco & Rose is his solo project: a collection of songs, inspired […]

Video Premiere: Michael Rudd “Going to the Mountain”

February 26, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Amongst breathtaking landscapes, Michael Rudd sings of a weary search for something he’ll never find. Many listeners will recognise that feeling of looking for more, seeking a new way of life that always remains just beyond […]

Video Interview: Simon Nicol on Fairport Convention’s latest tour

February 25, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

Leaving the music industry in the ‘80s probably ensured Fairport Convention’s long term survival. Fairport Convention and its various alumni are firm favourites of Americana UK and our readership, but in all the coverage and interviews […]

More People Really Should Know About: Bedouine

February 25, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

A soundscape of memory and the road ahead. Despite her feature on Hozier’s latest EP and interviews with Rolling Stone and Vice, most of the music world has not yet caught up to the genius that […]

Blue Cactus “This Kind Of Rain” – insert twelth night quote…

February 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Just to be clear, this is not an unprovoked attempt to stake a claim for the Americana UK territory that we call The Video Section – no way man. In fact it is nothing less than […]

Sonny Rollins
Jazz titan Sonny Rollins has gone at the age of 95. Cle...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
By Ian C Rothery , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
By fredhead , 2 weeks ago
RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
By Martin Johnson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
By Paul Villers , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
By Jonathan Hincks , 3 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 3 weeks ago

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Features

Americana UK writers choose their albums of 2020

December 22, 2020 6

We’ve reached the end of perhaps the most unconventional year in most of our lifetimes, but music has been that constant companion, even though our capacity to cope with acoustic covers albums has perhaps been pushed […]

News

Drive By Truckers announce new album, single, UK dates for 2020

November 21, 2019 0

Drive-By Truckers will release their new album ‘The Unraveling’ through ATO Records on 31st January and they’ve just released their first single from it called ‘Armageddon’s Back In Town’ which you can hear below. In addition, […]

News

Aaron Lee Tasjan announces UK and European autumn tour dates

June 26, 2024 1

Aaron Lee Tasjan’s latest album, the cracking psych-americana “Stellar Evolution” came out earlier this year but so far is only available digitally and on import. Hopefully the announcement of Tasjan’s tour in the autumn of 24 […]

Month: February 2025

Track Premiere: Tobacco & Rose “Bride Of Suffering”

Video Premiere: Michael Rudd “Going to the Mountain”

Video Interview: Simon Nicol on Fairport Convention’s latest tour

More People Really Should Know About: Bedouine

Blue Cactus “This Kind Of Rain” – insert twelth night quote…

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson