2022 – Page 315 – Americana UK

Video: Jerry Leger “Have You Ever Been Happy”

March 21, 2022 Mike Robbie 0

Leave it to Canadian songwriter, Jerry Leger, to ask an appropriate question of our times, in that simple Canadian way, as an omnipresent pandemic, eastern European war, divisive politics and more fill our collective days with […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Will Oldham “Big Balls”

March 21, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Last week it was Malvina Reynolds and her ‘Little Boxes’. This week it is something opposite – Will Oldham and his ‘Big Balls’. Now, Oldham is one true musical chameleon, from the changing personalities he records […]

Steve Dawson “Gone, Long Gone”

March 21, 2022 Helen Jones 3

An enjoyable lockdown album from a veteran musician whose new experiment with co-writing has paid off. Nashville transplant and Vancouver native Steve Dawson is a busy man: if he’s not producing music for other roots artists, […]

Mary Gauthier announces new album out this Summer – new song out now

March 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Mary Gauthier has announced her latest album, ‘Dark Enough to See the Stars‘, will be released on June 3rd on Thirty Tigers. This, her ninth album comes after Grammy-nominated’ Rifles and Rosary Beads‘, the album she […]

Track Premiere: Jessye DeSilva “Hibernate”

March 21, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Hibernate‘ is a new song by Boston singer-songwriter Jessye DeSilva, which is taken from their new album ‘Landscapes.‘ It conjures up images of hunkering down and finding a warm and safe space in difficult times – […]

Beck “Ride Lonesome”

September 25, 2026 1

A majestic album with its roots in sadness from celebrated multi-award winner. Long-awaited, Ride Lonesome is eight-time Grammy winner Beck’s first collection of all-new material since Hyperspace some six years ago. All 12 tracks were written […]

Live Review: Levellers, The Meffs, Brakes, Kid Kapichi and Sleeper, Hove Park, Brighton – 5th September 2026

September 25, 2026 0

If only all homecomings could be this joyful. There are homecomings, and then there are homecomings. For the Levellers, returning to Brighton for a huge outdoor show in Hove Park felt like something rather special. Following […]

Josh Ritter is coming this way in January – Happy New Year!

September 25, 2026 0

One of AUK’s favourite singer-songwriters, who is also an artist and best-selling author, Josh Ritter, will tour the UK and Ireland early next year, following his last album, I Believe In You, My Honeydew. The tour […]

Year: 2022