May 2025 – Page 14 – Americana UK

More People Should Really Know About: Jerry Joseph

May 20, 2025 John Lee 7

Let’s start with the paradox: if you’re reading this, you probably already know about Jerry Joseph. You’re likely a fan. If you’ve seen him live, you might even be the kind of superfan who travels miles […]

Track Premiere: The Brothers Comatose “Golden Grass”

May 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

You may guess from the photo’ that The Brothers Comatose are not a band of just brothers – but they were when they formed. Founded in 2008 by brothers Ben and Alex Morrison, the group features […]

Video: Trevor Sensor “The Farm”

May 20, 2025 Andrew Frolish 3

Check out the new single from Midwest singer-songwriter Trevor Sensor. Sensor possesses an immense voice, full of weary grit and perfect for storytelling and intimate musical conversations. He’s also known for delivering evocative, challenging lyrics through […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle “Colvin & Earle”

May 19, 2025 Dean Nardi 2

Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle discovered they had a lot more in common than being respected recording artists in the Americana and folk genres. They both have struggled with addiction (Earle heroin and a smorgasbord of […]

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Vinny Peculiar “Things Too Long Left Unsaid”

May 19, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

Whimsical and self-effacing reflections with a poetic folk-rock flavour. With an alter-ego like Vinny Peculiar, there’s a fair chance that this is someone unlikely to take himself too seriously. Underneath the self-deprecating and sardonic wit, however, […]

Dean Owenswith John Convertino and Joey Burns

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

September 24, 2026 0

It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Tracks

Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside “Far Away The Hills Are Green” – Listen

June 28, 2021 0

The second – and last for 2021 – single from Laura Quirke (of Lemoncello) and Joshua Burnside is a fragile semi-asleep reflection of a song. It takes, says Joshua Burnside, the viewpoint of a young Irish […]

Album Reviews

Silver Synthetic “Rosalie”

April 24, 2025 0

Silver Synthetic’s sophomore effort is a wonderfully disparate jumble of genres. The primary influence of “Rosalie,” the second album by New-Orleans’ Silver Synthetic, may be Josh Rouse’s “1970” and “Nashville” discs from the mid-2000s. It immediately […]

Album Reviews

The Menzingers “Some Of It Was True”

October 16, 2023 0

A live album with studio sound. Eighteen years on from when Scranton, PA punk rockers The Menzingers started out guitarist Greg Barnett clearly does not undersell this, their seventh studio album, describing it as, “a pivotal […]

Month: May 2025

More People Should Really Know About: Jerry Joseph

Track Premiere: The Brothers Comatose “Golden Grass”

Video: Trevor Sensor “The Farm”

Classic Americana Albums: Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle “Colvin & Earle”

Vinny Peculiar “Things Too Long Left Unsaid”

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”