2025 – Page 122 – Americana UK

Lucinda Williams @ Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul. 14 April 2019

Classic Clips: Lucinda Williams “Drunken Angel” – Austin City Limits, 1998

September 12, 2025 Chas Lacey 1

‘Drunken Angel’ is about a man who released only one single before his death in 1989 yet went on to achieve legendary status. Lucinda Williams wrote the song about Blaze Foley, a friend she’d made in […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Sarah McQuaid

September 12, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

From her beginnings as a music critic turned folk singer, Sarah McQuaid has evolved into a mature artist with important thoughts to ponder then sing about. It is quite easy to get lost in her music […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 199 “Bandcamp Gold”

September 12, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Creating a couple of radio shows and having a voracious appetite for new music keep me coming back to Bandcamp. It is a wonderful thing. I never play tracks on my shows that I have not […]

Lloyd and the Leftovers “Spin the Wheel”

September 12, 2025 Ben Yelton 0

Intriguing debut release from Australiana indie-folkers. The debut album from Lloyd and the Leftovers (great band name, by the way) joins the recent wave of Australian-flavoured Americana. Hailing from Walyalup on the west coast, their sound […]

Peter Stampfel “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” – let’s look at it this way

September 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Peter Stampfel – he of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders – has a new and, hey no real surprise, rather unusual new album coming out. It’s called “Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage […]

Live Review: Laura Veirs + Karl Blau, EartH Dalston – 16th September 2026

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Laura Veirs has an impressive back catalogue, with 14 solo albums across 27 years. She began by announcing that she would play some new songs. Her latest album, Temple Songs, is excellent but, for me, part […]

Our Man In The Field “Silverado”

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A successful change in direction to a more soulful sound reaps its own rewards. Silverado is the third album from British songwriter Alex Ellis, aka Our Man In The Field, after The Company of Strangers (2020) […]

More People Really Should Know About: Padraig Jack

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Just off the west coast of Ireland, west of Clare and south of Connemara, lie three small islands. With weather-beaten cliffs, tiny stone-walled fields, and a small, resilient population, the Aran Islands are steeped in history. […]

Year: 2025

Classic Clips: Lucinda Williams “Drunken Angel” – Austin City Limits, 1998

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Sarah McQuaid

Sounds from beyond the Shed 199 “Bandcamp Gold”

Lloyd and the Leftovers “Spin the Wheel”

Peter Stampfel “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” – let’s look at it this way

Live Review: Laura Veirs + Karl Blau, EartH Dalston – 16th September 2026

Our Man In The Field “Silverado”

More People Really Should Know About: Padraig Jack

Greyhounds “Live On 29th Street”

Ella Spencer “Howlin’ Wolf” – one lie too many