Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Mavis Staples, Mariel Buckley, The Dreaming Spires, Aimee Mann and Tyler Ramsey among others – as always we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to. Plus we’re including an exclusive playlist of the best americana we’ve heard in 2025 as chosen by our writing team collaboratively. Kind of like an americana version of Spotify Wrapped but chosen by real human beings. So there’s that, plus our giveaway this month is two tickets for one supporter (and a pal/partner/friend with benefits) to see Lucy Mellenfield live, the remarkable young jazz-folk singer-songwriter, who is just about to release her debut album “Tell The Water, She Will Listen” with Birmingham’s Stoney Lane Records this coming January 16th – it’s described as “a poignant and original studio recording drawing on fragility, love, loss and the turmoil of society over the last five years.”
Produced by Chris Hyson (Snowpoet, Jordan Rakei), Tell The Water, She Will Listen draws on jazz and folk, interweaving improvisation and folk melodies with immersive soundscapes and vivid lyric writing. The roots of the music sparked out of the darkness of early 2020 alongside Lucy’s move to Birmingham, discovering a whole new community of musicians and lifelong friends. As well as writing and singing all of the songs on her new album, Lucy also plays grand piano, upright piano, rhodes, keyboards, synths and acoustic guitar.
“The whole lockdown period inspired creativity and lent a lot of time to focus on songwriting, a chance for an empty mind to wander and reflect,” says Lucy. “Meanwhile, events sprouting up around the world generated a whole new perspective and triggered a lot of questions. Never in my life had my instincts felt so alive. The following years rolled on, unravelling more unrest, protest, conflicts of opinion. People were hooked to their screens like never before, and society was broken apart with so many people rife with judgement. A lot of society lost perspective and the ability to empathise thanks to the hounding nature of the media. Both the real and online world became a battlefield.”
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