Yola

RS Country looks at the genre’s racist history

June 8, 2020 Mark Whitfield 4

RS Country has posted a really timely piece about country music’s relationship with race entitled Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History which interviews among others Yola and Rhiannon Giddens, the latter challenging what she calls a “manufactured […]

Watch Yola perform “I Don’t Wanna Lie” on the Late Show

February 28, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a clip of Yola (who is EVERYWHERE these days), who performed her single ‘I Don’t Wanna Lie’ on The Late Late Show With James Corden earlier in the […]

Video: Yola “I Don’t Wanna Lie”

January 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s AUK favourite, Yola’s excellent recent live performance on The Tonight Show, celebrating her four Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist. The 62nd Grammy Awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on January 26th – […]

Watch Yola’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

January 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We are collectively big fans of Yola here at AUK as she swept the board for our readers poll in 2019 on the back of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Walk Through Fire’ which is brimming […]

RS Country: “How Americana Went Mainstream in the 2010s”

January 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Rolling Stone Country published a really interesting piece just before we had our Christmas break which described how americana was once a niche genre (rude), before finding a wider audience in the last decade citing artists […]