2025 – Page 268 – Americana UK

Folk Roundup – Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

May 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest Folk Roundup is a pretty mixed bag on what we (loosely) call Folk music, with the welcome return of a long-serving – but relatively small outputting – band in the form of Flook, as […]

Video: I’m With Her “Standing on the Fault Line”

May 8, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Roots music supergroup I’m With Her explore lost dreams in their new song ‘Standing on the Fault Line’. This is the latest single from their forthcoming album “Wild, Clear and Blue”. Group member Sara Watkins reflects […]

Sam Robbins “So Much I Still Don’t See”

May 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Sunny and melodic folk-pop with thoughtful and philosophical words. “So Much I Still Don’t See” is Sam Robbins’ third album after his debut, “Finally Feeling Young” (2021) and 2022’s “Bigger Than in Between”. It is melodic […]

Tom Jenkins “When The Coal Dust Settled”

May 8, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0

Tom Jenkins returns with a powerful study of post-industrial Wales. Whilst working as a contract sheep shearer across the hill farms of Wales, Tom Jenkins wrote poems inspired by the stories of his fellow workers and […]

Live review: Jesse Malin + Aaron Lee Tasjan, Islington Assembly Hall – 1st May 2025

May 8, 2025 Martin Fisher 3

In May 2023, Jesse Malin was hit by a rare spinal cord stroke condition that effectively left him paralysed from the waist down. Told by many a doctor it was very unlikely he would walk again, […]

Lucinda Williams St Paul Theatre 14 April 2019

For the Sake of the Song: Lucinda Williams “Metal Firecracker”

September 28, 2026 0

There are songs that you love for the lyrics, songs that you love for the music; sometimes you get a song where both are so perfect you have a masterpiece. Lucinda Williams’ Metal Firecracker is the […]

Artwork for Ian Noe album"Canyon Falls Trailer Band"

Ian Noe “Canyon Falls Trailer Band”

September 28, 2026 0

Impressive collection of character-driven songwriting and classic country sounds. Kentuckian Ian Noe presents a diverse selection of sixteen original songs on his excellent new album, Canyon Falls Trailer Band. It’s Noe’s third release and the second […]

The Jayhawks live at the Electric Ballroom, Camden - 16th September 2026

Live Review: The Jayhawks, Electric Ballroom, Camden – 16th September 2026

September 28, 2026 0

About a decade ago, I formulated a new genre based on a particular guitar sound that would for several years be heard on Radio 2 after midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. Bob Harris Country is […]

Year: 2025

Folk Roundup – Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

Video: I’m With Her “Standing on the Fault Line”

Sam Robbins “So Much I Still Don’t See”

Tom Jenkins “When The Coal Dust Settled”

Live review: Jesse Malin + Aaron Lee Tasjan, Islington Assembly Hall – 1st May 2025

For the Sake of the Song: Lucinda Williams “Metal Firecracker”

Ian Noe “Canyon Falls Trailer Band”

Live Review: The Jayhawks, Electric Ballroom, Camden – 16th September 2026

Bluegrass Briefs: Sociograss, Triple Fiddle, The Runaway Strings, Lindsay Lou

Jack Browning “Painted Skies”