2025 – Page 210 – Americana UK

Fruit Bats to release new album “Baby Man”

June 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

Fruit Bats has announced the forthcoming release of the new album “Baby Man” on 12th September 2025 via Merge Records. “Baby Man” is the follow-up to 2023’s release “A River Running to Your Heart” (Merge). Johnson […]

Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

June 26, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

Vox Continental: June 2025

June 26, 2025 Rick Bayles 0

We have a couple of new single releases and a look at some of the Bluegrass festivals coming up in mainland Europe. First up, a new single from German band Lambs & Wolves. Originally based in […]

Ava McCoy “Dragonfly”

June 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

A moving set of well-performed songs laced with resilience. Ava McCoy is still in her twenties and “Dragonfly” is her second full-length album after “Moss On The Celling” (2022) and an EP, “Closer To The Bugs”. […]

Ron Sexsmith “Don’t Lose Sight” – Listen

June 26, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Canadian icon Ron Sexsmith reflects on the past few years in his new single ‘Don’t Lose Sight’. Recorded in London with long time collaborator Martin Terefe at Eastcote Studios in London, this is the first single […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
By Ian C Rothery , 10 hours ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 5 days ago
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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
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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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