Jonathan Smith

The Good Lovelies “We Will Never Be The Same”

October 12, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Life lessons and harmonies. ‘We Will Never Be The Same’ is the first album of new material from Canada’s The Good Lovelies in five years. Comprising singer-songwriters Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough and Susan Passmore, they have […]

Buxton “A Family Light”

October 3, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Raw offering of acoustic indie-folk / Americana from Texas. Buxton are an indie folk band based out of Houston, Texas, with twenty years and five albums behind them. ‘A Family Light’ is one of those albums, […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Jonathan Smith

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Aargh! The best? How do you even do that? Answer: don’t fret, just pick ten who spring to mind, even if that means leaving out Bob Dylan, The Band, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Jason […]

Charlie Kaplan “Country Life in America”

September 21, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Jangle with an angle from New York City. One definition of an argument that never ends would be, what constitutes ‘good’ music? Maybe a 10-year-old might be enthralled by whatever teen icon was currently making waves, […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Erika Jonsson “Queen of the Highway”

September 11, 2023 Jonathan Smith 1

Following on from the Drive-By Truckers, here’s a song featuring a whole load of real-life truckers. Erika Jonsson is a full-fledged americana star in her native Sweden, and is currently augmenting her living in the tricky […]