2025 – Page 43 – Americana UK

Track Premiere: Samuel Wilbur “Once Again The World Let You Down”

November 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Today’s Track Premiere comes from “Ivory Tower“, the latest album by Samuel Wilbur, whom, you may recall, is a Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter, high school teacher (he teaches history), and passionate environmentalist. He describes “Ivory Tower” as a […]

Video: Hannah Cohen “Mountain”

November 19, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the latest single from Catskills-based singer-songwriter Hannah Cohen. Central to ‘Mountain’ is Cohen’s gorgeous vocal delivery – it’s timeless, graceful, pure and sweetly melodic. Most striking are Cohen’s poetic lyrics that meditate on feelings of […]

AUK Back Pages No. 20

November 18, 2025 Paul Kerr 2

It’s time (almost) to light the candles on the cake and sing Happy Birthday to Americana UK as we enter our 10th year in 2011. In reality, AUK celebrated this anniversary much later in the year, […]

More People Should Really Know About: Tennessee Twin

November 18, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

When I was involved in setting up the UK Country Music Association, which aims to amplify the voice of our domestic scene, I got to know Geoff Meads, who designed a stellar website for the UK-CMA. […]

Maygen & The Birdwatcher “The Americana Dream”

November 18, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

From bluegrass and folk roots to new horizons. For name alone, Maygen & The Birdwatcher deserve plaudits for originality, but you don’t have to listen to their fusion of bluegrass and folk for long to appreciate […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Year: 2025

Track Premiere: Samuel Wilbur “Once Again The World Let You Down”

Video: Hannah Cohen “Mountain”

AUK Back Pages No. 20

More People Should Really Know About: Tennessee Twin

Maygen & The Birdwatcher “The Americana Dream”

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson