August 2025 – Page 8 – Americana UK

Sounds from beyond the Shed 196 “Technical Issues”

August 22, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 2

The discerning readers amongst you will have been religiously listening to the radio broadcast attached below since its inception. Every week, I travel to a radio studio in Milton Keynes and for two hours, I play […]

Joseph Decosimo “Glory in the Meetinghouse” – fierce, unsettled edginess

August 22, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Joseph Decosimo creates a meditative Appalachian mood with his new single ‘Glory in the Meetinghouse’. This fiddle tune is noted as one of the songs that roots music archivist Alan Lomax recorded Luther Strong playing. The […]

Video Premiere: Joe Nolan “Half a Tear, Half a Grin”

August 22, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

Here’s the premiere of the latest video from acclaimed singer-songwriter Joe Nolan, who won a Canadian Folk Music Award last year for his 2023 release “Lost Verses”. ‘Half a Tear, Half a Grin’ is a heartfelt […]

Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

August 21, 2025 Oliver Gray 1

Sedentary performers were prominent at Folk In The Park. Richard Thompson had fallen down some stairs, while Tom Robinson was suffering from a more prosaic hernia. Poor Eddi Reader, meanwhile, had fallen ill but… The Show […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Charming Disaster

August 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

If it was possible to weigh the amount of emails that flood our inbox, you would be safe in assuming we get a ton of requests from artists and their agents – established acts and new […]

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0

Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

July 21, 2026 0

Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

July 21, 2026 0

If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

Month: August 2025

Sounds from beyond the Shed 196 “Technical Issues”

Joseph Decosimo “Glory in the Meetinghouse” – fierce, unsettled edginess

Video Premiere: Joe Nolan “Half a Tear, Half a Grin”

Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Charming Disaster

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026

Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”