2025 – Page 374 – Americana UK

Adrian Crowley “Measure of Joy”

February 3, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0

Adrian Crowley returns with a brooding collection of songs. Four years after ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’, Adrian Crowley returns with his 10th studio offering, the John Parish-produced ‘Measure of Joy’. What is immediately striking […]

Track Premiere: The Seldom Scene “Farewell Angelina”

February 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Few are the bands that can continue for 53 years without the occasional change in the line-up and The Seldom Scene have taken that tendency to change to the fullest conclusion – although there are members […]

Video: Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Downstream” (feat. John Anderson)

February 3, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the third single to be released from Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s forthcoming album “The Purple Bird”. Will Oldham has collaborated with various artists on this new collection and “Downstream” was co-written and recorded with the […]

Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter feat. Jason Isbell “All Some Kind of Dream”

January 31, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, we’re having our annual writers get-together in (wait for it…) Buxton again this weekend so if you see a group of elderly men arguing about banjos […]

artwork for Ben Nichols & Rick Steff album "Lucero Unplugged"

Ben Nichols & Rick Steff “Lucero Unplugged”

January 31, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

An acoustic and intense return to songs from the Memphis band’s 25-year history. Though the vogue for Unplugged albums may have peaked in the 90’s with multi-platinum selling versions by the likes of Eric Clapton and […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

September 24, 2026 0

Stephen Eyre is singer and guitarist with South Oxfordshire band Only The Brave. Our Graeme Tait reviewed their debut EP and described them as a band with a bright future in his February EP roundup. Stephen […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Interviews

Interview: Ann Savoy

January 12, 2018 0

Adopted Cajun, Ann Savoy of the Savoy Cajun Family Band is carrying on the region’s age-old tradition of music and way of life through her work. Savoy, married to accordionist and accordion builder Marc Savoy, is […]

Tracks

Silver Lining “Go Out Nowhere” – they shall be released

November 30, 2021 0

You’ll probably recall that from time to time we bang on about the leading bands and artists of the Nordicana scene – a group of musicians who are so supportive of each other that they permutate […]

Tracks

The Ghibertins “Ropes & Kites” – powerful indy-folk-rock

November 19, 2021 0

On the latest single from their album ‘The Life & Death of John Doe‘, Milan’s The Ghibertins channel all the positive energy they can on the album’s most upbeat number. Like Ben Franklin’s kite, The Ghibertins […]

Year: 2025

Adrian Crowley “Measure of Joy”

Track Premiere: The Seldom Scene “Farewell Angelina”

Video: Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Downstream” (feat. John Anderson)

Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter feat. Jason Isbell “All Some Kind of Dream”

Ben Nichols & Rick Steff “Lucero Unplugged”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026

Family Stereo “Remedy” – heartbreak beckons