2025 – Page 249 – Americana UK

Video Premiere: Ward Hayden & The Outliers “Youngstown”

May 27, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

Here is a powerful re-imagining of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Youngstown’ by Ward Hayden & The Outliers. This isn’t just a cover; Hayden takes a great song and fashions it into something genuinely new and brilliant in its […]

Something for the long weekend: Wednesday “Elderberry Wine”

May 23, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well, that’s it from us for another week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from a band we haven’t featured previously here on AUK but, you know, they never call, they never write. […]

Live Review: Katie Pruitt + Henry Grace, Hoxton Hall, London – 16th May 2025

May 23, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

In town to perform in the round at the Highways Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Pruitt played a show the previous night at Hoxton Hall in East London. The venue originally started life as […]

Classic Clips: Dawes “A Little Bit of Everything” – New York, 2019

May 23, 2025 Jonny Brick 1

In the most wretched way, Dawes became very visible earlier this year after drummer Griffin Goldsmith lost his home in the Pacific Palisades fires. He and brother Taylor are the only constant members of the band, […]

Paul Armfield “Between The Covers – 9 Songs For Bibliophiles”

May 23, 2025 Tim Martin 0

A reflection on the love of books through some great original songs and well chosen covers. When Paul Armfield sat down in early 2024 to start writing songs for what would be his 9th album release, […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0

It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Year: 2025

Video Premiere: Ward Hayden & The Outliers “Youngstown”

Something for the long weekend: Wednesday “Elderberry Wine”

Live Review: Katie Pruitt + Henry Grace, Hoxton Hall, London – 16th May 2025

Classic Clips: Dawes “A Little Bit of Everything” – New York, 2019

Paul Armfield “Between The Covers – 9 Songs For Bibliophiles”

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”