June 2025 – Page 11 – Americana UK

Classic Clips: Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Paraguay” – Norderstedt, 2019

June 20, 2025 Tim Martin 1

Having done a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Paraguay during his youth, Rich Hopkins returned to meet the family he had been involved with in the 1990s. That resulted in his album “Paraguay”, which […]

Tift Merritt reissues “Tambourine” along with companion of demos and home recordings

June 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 2

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her breakthrough album “Tambourine” with a two-part release arriving on 29th August 2025 via One Riot Records. The release is made up of the vinyl reissue of […]

Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”

June 20, 2025 Michael Macy 0

Folk meets pop in new release, and pop comes out on top. Sam Kelly’s new album “Dreamers Dawn” packs power into folk pop. It focuses on original songs, while not always achieving the same depth in […]

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2

The Lexington welcomed JP Harris back with his full band in tow, ready to give an evening of rocking country tunes in styles that predate the big-hat, big-arena styles of the Eighties. There would be honky-tonk, […]

The Wood Brothers “The Trick” – how to live your life

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

On the raucous rocking new single from The Wood Brothers, we are provided with a philosophy of life which resonates with the distorted accompaniment. “The trick” the brothers sing “is to not give a damn.” Imagine […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 0

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

Month: June 2025

Classic Clips: Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Paraguay” – Norderstedt, 2019

Tift Merritt reissues “Tambourine” along with companion of demos and home recordings

Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

The Wood Brothers “The Trick” – how to live your life

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates

All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December