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 […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

May 11, 2026 0

The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

May 11, 2026 0

Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

May 11, 2026 0

Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

Month: July 2025

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

Lisa Akuah “Golden Seams”

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

Kai Crowe-Getty “The Wreckage”

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

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live”

The Krickets “If You Only Knew”