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 – […]

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 […]

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

July 10, 2026 0

Les Thomas sparks memories and hope with this self-produced gem. Les Thomas uses an 1840 painting by J.M.W Turner for the cover of his latest record. The Slave Ship depicts a dramatic seascape as the ship […]

Year: 2022

Video: Jerry Leger “Have You Ever Been Happy”

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

Steve Dawson “Gone, Long Gone”

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

Track Premiere: Jessye DeSilva “Hibernate”

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

Ellie Holcomb “What Would I Do Without You” – watcha say?