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 […]

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. […]

Album Reviews

Session Americana “The Rattle and The Clatter”

February 16, 2024 0

A classy blend of every corner of Americana in a 20-year retrospective from Massachusets-born Session Americana. Session Americana evolved from a jam session at the Toad bar in Cambridge, Massachusets way back in 2003, and ‘The […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Couldn’t Be Happiers “When I Die”

October 15, 2024 0

Despite the above photograph we are assured that Jodi Hildebran Lee and Jordan Crosby Lee could not, in fact, be happier. The duo are both law school graduates, but they did not meet in the courtroom, […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: The Flying Burrito Brothers “The Gilded Palace of Sin”

November 3, 2021 4

It’s been a couple of months since Jim Finnie’s wonderful article on ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’, in which he acknowledges a debt to Martin Johnson’s excellent piece on ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’. What better excuse than […]

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”

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”