2025 – Page 375 – Americana UK

Classic Clips: Stephen Bruton with The Resentments “Heart Of Hearts” 2006

January 31, 2025 Martin Johnson 2

We look back at a clip from The Laboratorium Stuttgart, 7th December 2006. Stephen Bruton was an exceptionally talented guitarist and songwriter who is better known today as a supporting musician who worked with the likes […]

Gary Louris to release third solo album “Dark Country”

January 31, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Gary Louris is an artist who needs no introduction to Americana UK readers. Over the last three decades, Louris has built a compelling body of music which has won the loyalty of an international audience and […]

Cave Flowers “Western Spectre”

January 31, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Cave Flowers offers an earthy, rock-solid appeal on the band’s sophomore release. Cave Flowers got its start in 2020 when Andy McAllister split the Pacific Northwest for the hazy hills of Southern California where he connected […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – January 2025

January 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And so the ever-popular Folk Roundup returns after a short pause to allow for the flood of Winter Festival Themed songs (you remember all of them). And in this return there’s a very modern folk feel […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 171 – “The Sounds of Silence”

January 31, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Regular readers will know that I have often mentioned that since quitting full-time teaching, somehow, my life has become busier. This is, for the most part, a good thing. There’s no ossification or relentless routine as […]

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 […]

Vox Continental: September 2026

September 24, 2026 0

With the long, hot summer finally fading, it seems like a lot of European artists are keen to get out on tour. Oakland Rain are a Norwegian folk and Americana duo, made up of twin sisters, […]

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. […]

Tracks

Juanita Stein “Carry Me” – letting things go

November 7, 2024 0

The Howling Bells fronts-woman returns at last with her fourth solo album ‘The Weightless Hour‘ from which today’s song is taken. The new single was a lockdown written song, with quite the story behind it as […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

September 8, 2026 0

There are, of course, countless reasons why we love attending gigs and feeding on the buzz that only live music can give. On the Americana circuit that we inhabit in these pages, often at smaller and […]

News

Margo Price returns with new album “Hard Headed Woman”

June 12, 2025 0

Margo Price has announced the release of new album “Hard Headed Woman”, described as “a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw”, […]

Year: 2025

Classic Clips: Stephen Bruton with The Resentments “Heart Of Hearts” 2006

Gary Louris to release third solo album “Dark Country”

Cave Flowers “Western Spectre”

Folk Tracks Roundup – January 2025

Sounds from beyond the Shed 171 – “The Sounds of Silence”

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026

Family Stereo “Remedy” – heartbreak beckons

Video Premiere: Elli de Mon “Strange Fruit”