July 2025 – Page 9 – Americana UK

Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return

July 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘White Goose‘ is a meditation on things that are gone and is shot through with regret. Mistakes and regrets and not only for the tangible things “the ghost of everything we loved and everything we didn’t […]

Video: Hayes Carll “We’re Only Human”

July 25, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

The aching, piano-driven new song from Hayes Carll reflects on the universal human experience. He sings of love and loss, tragedies and mistakes, fear and hope, blame and shame; it’s all here, all that makes the […]

Not Dead Yet – Woody Guthrie’s last recordings emerge 75 years later

July 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Seventy-five years late, twenty-two previously unreleased tracks from 1951-1952 home tapes, including 13 songs never recorded elsewhere, and rare ‘This Land is Your Land’ verses have been rediscovered and are to […]

Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”

July 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

A musically fun, if sometimes lyrically dark, fifth full-length from Boston string band Grain Thief. One of the benefits of reviewing albums for AUK is getting to hear artists that would almost certainly have gone unnoticed […]

Album Reviews

Folk Roundup – Clementine Lovell, Ezmay Grace, Faun Fables, Natalie Padilla, Odette Michell

July 24, 2025 Andy Short 0

For this month’s folk round-up, we give AUK’s very own folk hero, Jonathan Aird, a well-earned month off. Looking at this fine selection of five new albums, he has missed a good one. We have a […]

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

August 10, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0

Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]

Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0

American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

Album Reviews

I’m With Her “Wild and Clear and Blue”

May 16, 2025 0

Folk supergroup trio expands upon their sound while keeping their specialness. Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins make up the folk music supergroup I’m With Her. Their latest album, “Wild and Clear and Blue,” exemplifies […]

Features

More People Should Really Know About: Ordinary Elephant

September 3, 2024 1

“They say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t say to you is, you will never forget an elephant” – Bill Murray The story has been told before, many times during the seven years since the […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Pat Carter “Barbed Wire”

December 2, 2025 0

Here’s the video for ‘Barbed Wire’, the latest single from artist, singer and producer Pat Carter. Over a restless rhythm from drummer Alssandro Guida, Carter delivers a characterful vocal performance and a compelling melody. There’s a […]

Month: July 2025

Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return

Video: Hayes Carll “We’re Only Human”

Not Dead Yet – Woody Guthrie’s last recordings emerge 75 years later

Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”

Folk Roundup – Clementine Lovell, Ezmay Grace, Faun Fables, Natalie Padilla, Odette Michell

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

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album

Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”