2025 – Page 198 – Americana UK

Jolie Holland to release Michael Hurley tribute with Max Knause

July 7, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Jolie Holland is to release an album of songs in tribute to the late Michael Hurley. The album is entitled “Wolf Dispatch” and will be released on 18th July 2025 via Holland’s Cinquefoil Records imprint. Hurley […]

Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

July 7, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Alt Country’s sunnier climes. Ed Soles is the guitarist for Bristol band Langkamer and “Cash Mountain” is his first solo project. On its final track, ‘Solus Soles Weekend Blues’, he laments, “I wrote this song, but […]

Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

July 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

These days five years seems like an entire lifetime so cast your mind back if you will to the spring of 2020 where while the world was wrestling with the Covid-19 pandemic, there were still musical […]

Emma Swift “Nothing And Forever” – what’ll it be?

July 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Emma Swift made a big hit with her album of Dylan covers “Blonde On the Tracks”, and now she’s setting up to release a new album of her own music. It’s called “The Resurrection Game”, and […]

Video Premiere: Stan Simon “Long Way Past Gone”

July 7, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the video for Toronto songwriter Stan Simon’s new single, ‘Long Way Past Gone’. Written shortly before the passing of Simon’s father, this open-hearted song is full of grief-stricken emotion. Simon explains what it means to […]

Petunia live at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham - 24th September 2026

Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026

October 1, 2026 0

The Kitchen Garden Café in King’s Heath, Birmingham, makes you glad people still believe in putting good music in small rooms. Attached to a restaurant and garden centre by day, it becomes an intimate music venue […]

Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0

The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]

Jayne Pomplas “This Is How The World Ends”

October 1, 2026 0

First solo release shows Jayne Pomplas has much to offer. Jayne Pomplas is a Dublin-based American singer, songwriter and fiddle player who has spent years in Ireland performing and recording with artists including The Chieftains, Frankie […]

Year: 2025

Jolie Holland to release Michael Hurley tribute with Max Knause

Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

Emma Swift “Nothing And Forever” – what’ll it be?

Video Premiere: Stan Simon “Long Way Past Gone”

Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026

Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

Jayne Pomplas “This Is How The World Ends”

Folk-americana duo Rosine announce debut album due Spring 2027

Nicole Mish “Hope is Restless”