2025 – Page 279 – Americana UK

Steve Knightley “Positively Folk Street”

April 28, 2025 Rick Thorn 1

Heartfelt, simple tribute to early influences. A lot of tribute/cover albums can often leave you a little underwhelmed and wondering if the artist is just going through the motions or has run out of ideas. ‘Positively […]

Cover of Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane's album 'Double Takes'

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane “Double Takes”

April 28, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Ten songs packed with melody, musicianship and morals. Having known each other for two decades, and after recording a live album in 2018, Tentrees and Haldane combine in a Nashville studio under the auspices of producer […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter shares her “Personal History” in June

April 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter will release her anticipated new album “Personal History” on June 6th via Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers. In advance of the release, the song ‘Bitter Ender’ is out today […]

Ally Kerr “True Nature”

April 28, 2025 Helen Jones 0

A bright light of hopefulness shines from an album that finds promise even when things may look bleak. “Feels like a lifetime, I’ve been gone so long / But now I’m back again,” Scottish singer-songwriter Ally […]

Suzanne Vega “Alley” – or allies?

April 28, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Continuing our theme from last week of Big Names, and few stand higher than Suzanne Vega (she’s the same height as Bob Dylan, and if 1.69m is good enough for Bob, then it’s good enough for […]

All-star tribute to the Delmore Brothers to be released in October

July 1, 2026 0

The music of Alton and Rabon Delmore continues to influence generations of singers and songwriters across multiple genres. From their first appearance as the Delmore Brothers at the 1926 Athens Fiddlers Convention, their intricate harmonies took […]

Lynn Blakey “Dreams are Lovers: A Retrospective”

July 1, 2026 0

Unfashionable but influential collaborative indie singer-songwriter enjoys a career-spanning retrospective following her untimely death earlier this year. Lynn Blakey was not a name that gained a great deal of traction commercially but she was an influential […]

Live Review: Maisy Owen with BJ Cole + Joe Harvey-Whyte, Theatreship, London – 23rd June 2026

July 1, 2026 0

It was a hot evening in London as the audience for Maisy Owen’s first London show gathered at the Theatreship moored at Docklands’ South Quay. The ship is a converted barge with outside and inside bars […]

Year: 2025

Steve Knightley “Positively Folk Street”

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane “Double Takes”

Mary Chapin Carpenter shares her “Personal History” in June

Ally Kerr “True Nature”

Suzanne Vega “Alley” – or allies?

All-star tribute to the Delmore Brothers to be released in October

Lynn Blakey “Dreams are Lovers: A Retrospective”

Live Review: Maisy Owen with BJ Cole + Joe Harvey-Whyte, Theatreship, London – 23rd June 2026

Jim James takes off his Morning Jacket and gets all “Wowed Out” on his latest solo album

Styrofoam Winos “Somebody Wants To Send You A Message” – it comes and goes