Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ May 11, 2026 ] For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock” Features
  • [ May 11, 2026 ] I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together” Album Reviews
  • [ May 11, 2026 ] Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts AUK Mini-Gigs
  • [ May 11, 2026 ] Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live” Album Reviews
  • [ May 11, 2026 ] The Krickets “If You Only Knew” Album Reviews
Home2025

Year: 2025

Features

For the Sake of the Song: Jess Williamson “Wind On Tin”

November 3, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
There’s a certain solitude that takes place towards dusk in the American southwest. If you stand in one spot long enough, amidst the scrub and dust, you’ll likely hear no sound except the air and your […]
Chris While & Julie Matthews, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 25th October 2025
Live Reviews

Live Review: Chris While and Julie Matthews, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th October 2025

November 3, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Making the relatively short, thirty-minute journey from my home in Lincoln, towards the county’s premier americana music venue, the Town Hall in Kirton in Lindsey, I was constantly distracted by the setting sun as it slipped […]
News

Podcast number 5 with Jack Browning now live!

November 3, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1
This week’s podcast is live and full of treasures, not least of which is an interview with rising artist/musician Jack Browning, fresh from his Healing Appalachia gig. Jack talks albums, bands, painting, and much more. There’s […]
Dirt Road Souls
Tracks

Dirt Road Souls “Hold on Soul”

November 3, 2025 Ed Donnelly 1
Dirt Road Souls sing about dirt roads, soul, and going home on their new single, ‘Hold on Soul’.  The Boston-based trio released this single in anticipation of their new twelve-song concept album, ‘(The Life and Times […]
Videos

Video: Dean Owens “Wall of Death” – try to escape if you can

November 3, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
The latest single from AUK-favourite Dean Owens rolls and flows, rocking and riding along like the character we follow in Ruth Barrie’s (Waltzer Films) immersive music video. ‘Wall of Death’ uses circus imagery to explore what […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 62 63 64 … 402 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...

    By fredhead , 9 hours ago

  • RE: Versions!

    @paul-villers Those versions keep coming

    By Martin Johnson , 2 days ago

  • Paul Villers

    RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...

    By Paul Villers , 2 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive

    By Peter Thompson , 2 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...

    By Jonathan Hincks , 3 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)

    By Peter Thompson , 5 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...

    By Peter Thompson , 6 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...

    By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago

  • RE: My First Record Player

    I had a Rotel amp and turntable too until the buttons s...

    By Andy Short , 1 week ago

our latest posts

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

Features
May 11, 2026 0

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

Album Reviews
May 11, 2026 0

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

AUK Mini-Gigs
May 11, 2026 0

Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live”

Album Reviews
May 11, 2026 0

The Krickets “If You Only Knew”

Album Reviews
May 11, 2026 0
Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

May 11, 2026 0
The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]
Album Reviews

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

May 11, 2026 0
Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]
AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

May 11, 2026 0
Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

  • For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”
  • I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts
  • Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live”
  • The Krickets “If You Only Knew”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 230 “Travel – a necessary luxury”
  • Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” – anything, anything
  • Video Premiere: Erik Stucky “Bag of Bones”
  • Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”
  • Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Jonathan Aird: Been enjoying all the podcasts - but this was a particularly great interview!
  • Andrew Frolish: Really early notice! The info’ I have is that it’s 2027.
  • Michael O'Driscoll: After the misstep of The Bible, this sounds like a feturn to peak Lambchop. As always with Kurt, a radical…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 0
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
Interviews

Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

You may have missed…

artwork for Micheal Cormier album "More Light!!"
Album Reviews

Michael Cormier “More Light!!”

June 19, 2021 0
Delightful indie pop from Philly based multi-instrumentalist. Despite the dark subject matter alluded to lyrically, this is an essentially sweet concoction with flavours and tones that remind of Sufjan Stevens, Elliot Smith or Belle and Sebastian. […]
News

Not Dead Yet – Woody Guthrie’s last recordings emerge 75 years later

July 24, 2025 1
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Seventy-five years late, twenty-two previously unreleased tracks from 1951-1952 home tapes, including 13 songs never recorded elsewhere, and rare ‘This Land is Your Land’ verses have been rediscovered and are to […]
Album Reviews

The Band “The Band (50th Anniversary Edition)” (Capitol/UMe, 2019)

December 3, 2019 0
It could have been called ‘America’, but it is justifiably called ‘The Band’. Legend has it that it  was conceived as a concept album relating to different aspects of America and the Deep South. It is […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool