2025 – Page 163 – Americana UK

Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

August 5, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

Resuming a very successful series, The Twang Factor is back to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Get amped up! With the competition hotter than ever, AUK is accepting entries for the 4th season […]

Cover of Dave McCann's album “Soothsayer’s Blues”

Dave McCann “Soothsayer’s Blues”

August 5, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Eclectic and rootsy seventh album from Canadian singer/songwriter. Canadian singer Dave McCann recorded this album down in Mississippi, the state which, for the last century, has helped acts cook up a gumbo of music that eventually […]

The Droptines “Take Too Much” – access to excess is no good thing

August 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

You may be thinking, “That’s a big band“, judging from the photo above. Well, not in fact the case – that was taken when The Droptines signed with Miranda Lambert’s Big Loud Texas and features from […]

Video Premiere: Craig Gould & the Noble Thieves “Red River”

August 5, 2025 Andrew Frolish 4

Check out the latest single from folk and americana songwriter Craig Gould and his band The Noble Thieves. ‘Red River’ is an aching ballad about the strength that love gives us and the heartbreak of war. […]

For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

August 4, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

In her 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That”, Joan Didion wrote that young adults always have the curse of “conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before”. […]

Danny O;Keefe at Cosumer Unity conference 1981

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

July 6, 2026 0

Danny O’Keefe was one of the many folk-oriented singer-songwriters who flourished in the early ’70s, and while he didn’t break through to platinum success, his songs were covered by the likes of Jackson Browne, Elvis Presley, […]

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

July 6, 2026 0

Forgotten recordings from 20 years ago, which will delight Crowell fans. Then Again was recorded in 2006 with the same band as on Rodney Crowell’s previous three albums, The Houston Kid (2001), Fate’s Right Hand (2003) […]

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 0

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

Year: 2025

Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

Dave McCann “Soothsayer’s Blues”

The Droptines “Take Too Much” – access to excess is no good thing

Video Premiere: Craig Gould & the Noble Thieves “Red River”

For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

Live Review: Sierra Ferrell + The Brudi Brothers, Docks, Hamburg – 1st July 2026

Sounds from beyond the Shed 243 “A game of two halves”