July 2025 – Page 5 – Americana UK

Interview: Kevin Connolly builds songs with passion, wit and wordcraft

July 29, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Anyone who’s caught Kevin Connolly’s live act knows he’s rarely at a loss for words. Speaking his mind like a street-corner preacher, the folk bard uses the stage as a pulpit for his witty wordcraft, both […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Brooks Williams

July 29, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Writing and performing for over thirty years, Brooks Williams has carved out his own niche and earned a reputation as a superior guitarist to go along with prolific songcraft that has produced a staggering 34 albums […]

Anthony Ruptak “Tourist”

July 29, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Songs dealing with the real and the unreal… at the same time. On the track ‘Phantasmagoria’ Anthony Ruptak sings, “Well it’s a crazy goddamn hell of a mess we made/ it’s a cheap-shot, tik tok, weapon […]

Live Review: Ann Liu Cannon + Esme White, The Lexington, London – 11th July 2025

July 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

So, here we are in The Lexington with a stage decorated with tarot cards and naïve art angel dolls, and with Ann Liu Cannon who is no mean keyboard and guitar player, who writes literate and […]

Dallas Burrow feat. Ray Wylie Hubbard “Read ‘Em and Weep” – Listen

July 29, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Cowboy songwriter Dallas Burrow recruits Ray Wylie Hubbard to join him on his latest single ‘Read ‘Em and Weep’. A Western tale set in smoky saloons Hubbard’s familiar growl is the perfect foil for Burrow’s baritone […]