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”. […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
By fredhead , 4 days ago
RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
By Martin Johnson , 5 days ago
RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
By Paul Villers , 6 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
By Peter Thompson , 6 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
By Jonathan Hincks , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0

Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0

Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

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?)”

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

Classic Clips: Albert Lee “Country Boy” Live on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Weekend Wogan’ – 28th March 2010

Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!