May 2025 – Page 7 – Americana UK

Jerry David DeCicca “Cardiac Country”

May 27, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 2

Deep thoughts and a serious health scare. If this album’s title seems rather obscure, it turns out to be well-chosen. Feeling in good shape prolific singer/songwriter Jerry David DeCicca took only a couple of weeks to […]

More People Really Should Know About: Michael Carpenter

May 27, 2025 Tim Martin 4

The dividing line between genres can often be blurry at best, and americana, indie rock, country and power pop often overlap to the point that pigeonholing becomes pointless. An interesting example of skipping between and beyond […]

promotion photo for Derek Smith & the Cosmic Vultures

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – May 2025

May 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 3

Firstly, may I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold for picking up the baton and doing such a sterling job with last month’s EP Round-Up while I took a much-needed holiday. Now with my […]

Autumn Hollow “Say No More” – Listen

May 27, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

‘Say No More’ is the title track of Autumn Hollow’s second full-length album. The Boston-based band recorded all ten tracks at Medford’s Soul Shop with producer Elio DeLuca. With frontman Brendan Murphy on vocals, Mike Burke […]

Video Premiere: Ward Hayden & The Outliers “Youngstown”

May 27, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

Here is a powerful re-imagining of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Youngstown’ by Ward Hayden & The Outliers. This isn’t just a cover; Hayden takes a great song and fashions it into something genuinely new and brilliant in its […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 0

Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0

A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

August 10, 2026 0

Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]

Month: May 2025

Jerry David DeCicca “Cardiac Country”

More People Really Should Know About: Michael Carpenter

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – May 2025

Autumn Hollow “Say No More” – Listen

Video Premiere: Ward Hayden & The Outliers “Youngstown”

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album

Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”