2022 – Page 343 – Americana UK

Ray Wylie Hubbard “Hellbent For Leather” – Adios Hollywood sign

February 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

And what do you do when you’ve made a well received album with a bunch of friends? Well, as Ray Wylie Hubbard quickly realised you could do that again. And so the new album ‘Co-Starring Too’ […]

Video: The Delines “Drowning in Plain Sight”

February 24, 2022 Andrew Frolish 1

Everything about ‘Drowning in Plain Sight’, the latest single from The Delines, exudes a timeless kind of class. As ever, the combination of Willy Vlautin’s songcraft and Amy Boone’s beautiful, soulful voice works to create to […]

Classic Americana Albums: Willard Grant Conspiracy “Flying Low”

February 23, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 4

The nineties were abundant with americana bands that brought some serious innovation and new sounds to the genre. Some, like Wilco, made it big. Others, like American Music Club and Willard Grant Conspiracy, built quite a […]

Jesse Adelman “Strangers”

February 23, 2022 Sean Hannam 0

A superb debut album – richly melodic songs from Brooklyn that take in country, ’70s AM radio rock, folk, and Neil Young and Paul Simon doing psych-pop. For the past 10 years, Jesse Adelman, the former […]

Track Premiere: Tennessee Stiffs “Hey Paranoia”

February 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Hey Paranoia‘ is a raucous tale of a young band out on the road, aiming for fun no matter the cost. Is it autobiographical? That elements of the new album ‘Dearly Departed‘ from which the song […]

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: 2022

Ray Wylie Hubbard “Hellbent For Leather” – Adios Hollywood sign

Video: The Delines “Drowning in Plain Sight”

Classic Americana Albums: Willard Grant Conspiracy “Flying Low”

Jesse Adelman “Strangers”

Track Premiere: Tennessee Stiffs “Hey Paranoia”

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