2025 – Page 285 – Americana UK

James McMurtry returns with his Black Dog and Wandering Boy

April 23, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

James McMurtry will release “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy” on June 20 via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album […]

Album cover artwork for "Almost Home" by Ghost Hounds

Ghost Hounds “Almost Home”

April 23, 2025 Andrew Raw 1

Southern rock with words of love, loss and heartache, done well. This is Ghost Hounds’ fifth studio album and the southern rock here has a comforting familiarity starting with the ZZ Top-like opener ‘She Runs Hot’. […]

Track Premiere: Firefall “Mr Soul”

April 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s a legendary song covered by a legendary band – Firefall have been rocking for some fifty years, with a roster of musicians that have included some whose earlier careers had included bands such as The […]

Video: Alexandra Alden “Magnolia”

April 23, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the latest single from Maltese folk artist Alexandra Alden. “Magnolia” is arranged beautifully and showcases Alden’s engaging, melodic voice. Directed, animated and edited by Gideon van der Stelt, the video is an artfully-produced visual […]

Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars announce new album “Dreams”

April 22, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

The Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson is renowned for her purity of voice. Composer of the ever-fresh ’Morning Dew’, she was once at the heart of the Greenwich Village heyday when she sang at Gerdes Folk […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 0

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0

Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

June 30, 2026 0

Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

Interviews

Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1

As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0

Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]

Interviews

Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0

In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

Videos

Video premiere: Jamie Freeman “Hasia Dreams”

April 6, 2018 1

‘Hasia Dreams’ is the new EP from Jamie Freeman, a set of recordings influenced by his love of 60’s bands like Buffalo Springfield, The Who and The Beatles, charting a psychedelic course through Americana with the help of […]

Album Reviews

Hannah Kaminer “Heavy on the Vine”

February 2, 2024 1

Sweet melodies and moving words on this very satisfying third album. The weather in the UK has either been chillier than normal or biblical rainfall but then along comes this wonderful new third album from Hannah […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Kellen of Troy “Heaven Online”

March 5, 2020 0

Who can you trust these days? Sure, sure his name is Kellen – Kellen Wenrich (ask the bells of Shoreditch, baby) – but he’s from Nashville. Maybe not originally, there’s a chance that a musician may […]

Year: 2025

James McMurtry returns with his Black Dog and Wandering Boy

Ghost Hounds “Almost Home”

Track Premiere: Firefall “Mr Soul”

Video: Alexandra Alden “Magnolia”

Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars announce new album “Dreams”

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

Ian Prowse “No Names”

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

Preview: Rose’s Pawn Shop selling great gigs for the next couple of weeks