July 2025 – Page 37 – Americana UK

Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

Lisa Akuah “Golden Seams”

July 2, 2025 Helen Jones 0

A refreshing perspective and a unique voice helps “Golden Seams” stand out from a slew of similar singer-songwriter offerings. “Everything that left a crack in me / A break / A gap / A piece amiss […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Ani DiFranco, Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow – 25th June 2025

July 2, 2025 KC Vines 0

Part way through the gig, during her 1994 song ‘You Had Time’, Ani DiFranco, in cargo pants and crop-sleeved top, sings sweetly “How can I go home/ with nothing to say …what did you do out […]

Kai Crowe-Getty “The Wreckage”

July 2, 2025 John Lee 0

A solo album of scars and survival – poetic without being abstract, deeply human and rooted in American soil. Kai Crowe-Getty, the frontman of Lord Nelson, has collected together these tracks across a number of years. […]

Patty Griffin “Born In A Cage” – where has all the habitat gone?

July 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The second single from Patty Griffin’s latest album ‘Crown Of Roses’ is a double reflection – there’s the song’s clear theme of the loss of diversity in the wild, and then there’s the personal part where […]

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

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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: July 2025