2025 – Page 325 – Americana UK

For the Sake of the Song: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins “Rise Up With Fists!!”

March 17, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 1

Jenny Lewis first came to fame as a child actress, starting at the tender age of three when she appeared in a television commercial for Jell-O, a gelatine dessert. She starred in a number of films […]

Martha Wainwright rereleases eponymous debut on vinyl on twentieth anniversary

March 17, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

And tours extensively to support its release. As previously reported in November, it was twenty years ago when Martha Wainwright stepped out of her family’s illustrious shadow and announced herself to the world with her debut […]

Peter Bruntnell, live at The Chapel, The Angel Microbrewery, Nottingham - 6th March 2025

Live Review: Peter Bruntnell, The Chapel, The Angel Microbrewery, Nottingham – 6th March 2025

March 17, 2025 Graeme Tait 2

As you climb the stairs at The Angel Microbrewery, you are taken from the congenial ambiance reverberating around the bar towards the door on the first-floor landing that leads to The Chapel. Here, you are constantly […]

artwork for Jason Boland and the Stragglers album "The Last Kings Of Babylon"

Jason Boland and the Stragglers “The Last Kings Of Babylon”

March 17, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

A reflective album that finds Boland and the Searchers still firing on all cylinders as they come back down to earth. Originally from Harare, Oklahoma, but in recent years a resident of Texas, Jason Boland and […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – March 2025

March 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

What a month it has been for folk, with great gigs and new albums looming for review. But here on folk tracks the big excitement has been in the variety of songs and tunes coming the […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2025