2025 – Page 207 – Americana UK

New Grant-Lee Phillips album due early autumn, announces UK/EU tour dates

June 30, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and painter Grant-Lee Phillips has announced the release of “In the Hour of Dust”, his 12th solo album, on 5th September 2025 via Yep Roc Records. The self-produced album finds Phillips in introspective […]

Cajun Corner – The Stones Go Cajun!

June 30, 2025 Rick Bayles 3

It has been a while since we had anything to report in Cajun Corner, but we’re back with something really exciting. June 25th 2025 would’ve been the 100th birthday of the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, […]

Album artwork for The Last Revel album 'Gone for Good'

The Last Revel “Gone For Good”

June 30, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Solid bluegrass-tinged folk from a virtuosic quartet. Based in Minneapolis, this is the third album from The Last Revel since the trio, now a quartet, reconvened in 2021, their sixth in total. It is impossible not […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – June 2025

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A generous helping of new folk song recordings this month on the regular roundup from the Tracks we say “hmm…this is more folk than Americana, isn’t it?” In the end you, dear reader, as ever are […]

Video: Glitterfox “Wildfires”

June 30, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Portland’s Glitterfox are one of the most exciting acts out there, with the seven-song recent release “Highway Forever” demonstrating their fabulous songcraft and gift for memorable melody. The duo, frontperson Solange Igoa and guitarist Andrea Walker, […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
By Ian C Rothery , 7 hours ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 5 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
By fredhead , 6 days ago
RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
By Martin Johnson , 1 week ago
RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
By Paul Villers , 1 week 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 , 1 week 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 , 2 weeks ago

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

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 […]

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