We’ve been very busy updating our music on Folk Radio UK over the past week with the addition of new albums as well as some folk music classics from the past. Below is yesterday’s playlist to give you a flavour. This is just a fraction of what we currently play so expect more new music to brighten up your summer!
Grand Union – Shady Grove
the unthanks – the gallowgate lad
the abramson singers – call it something else
Things in Herds – As You Were Ending
Emily and the woods – Nietzsche
Philip Henry And Hannah Martin – Three Witches
Calico and the Off-Brand Band – When We Rise
George Thomas – Song For A Witch
marry waterson and oliver knight – revoiced
Nic Jones – Canadee-I-O
Tiny Ruins & A Singer Of Songs – Down South
Bosque Brown – Train Song
Long Voyage – Voices
James Yorkston – Tortoise Regrets Hare
Dylan Leblanc – 5th Avenue Bar
Andrew Bird – Measuring Cups
Elle Osborne – My Coffin Shall Be Black
Damien O’kane – The Lag’s Song
June Tabor And Martin Simpson – Strange Affair
Nathaniel Rateliff – Oil And Lavender
Martha Tilston – Seagull
Farriers – Am I Ever
Lau – Freeborn Man
arborea – phantasmagoria in two
Natalie Merchant – The Blind Men And The Elephant
The Books feat Jose Gonzalez – Cello Song
Catherine Maclellan – Everything’ll Be Alright
Jonathan Day – Strange Meetings
Marissa Nadler – Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
James Yorkston and The Athletes – Surf Song
Kathryn Tickell – Corn Fiddler
Breathe Owl Breathe – Lake Light
ewan robertson – vincent black lightning
Darren Black – Selling Honey To Bees
Heidi Talbot – Tell Me Truly
Sufjan Stevens – Vito’s Ordination Song
Emily Barker – Billowing Sea
Seth Lakeman – Race To Be King
Drever Mccusker And Woomble – Before The Ruin
The Memory Band – Blackberry Way
Chatham County Line – Birmingham Jail
Sean Hayes – One Day The River
iron and wine and calexico – prison on route 41
David Gibb – Rag Tag And Bobtail
Mary hampton – Let no man steal your thyme
Damien Dempsey – Sullivan John
nick drake – hazey jane II
Jack Rose – Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
Galley Beggar – Farewell Nancy
Ger Wolfe – Awake Awake
Jason molina with will oldham and alasdair roberts – My donal
Sons Of Noel And Adrian – Indigo (Live)
Lucy Ward – F For Love
The Outside Track – Madam Madam
richard thompson – 1952 vincent black lightning
The Gentle Good – Holly Blue
bob dylan – if not for you
The wind whistles – Good friends won’t rip you off
The Whip – Ballad Of Rapp
Stan Kelly-Walking With Ghosts – Blow The Man Down
The Lost Brothers – Angry At The Sun
Duncan Chisholm – The 303
Dolphin Boy – Roisin Dubh
The Big Eyes Family Players – Doreen
Walking With Ghosts – Australia Bankrobber Medley
Kris Drever – Steel And Stone (Black Water)
Inge Thomson – John
Dana Falconberry – Singing Lullabies
Ewan Mccoll-Sam Larner-Walking With Ghosts – Mr Stormalong
Jack Mcneill – The Wooden Boy
Martin Simpson – 61 Highway Highway 61 Revisited
Eddie Vedder – Broken Heart
kathleen edwards – I make the dough, you get the glory
Jenny Owen Youngs – Porchrail
Laura Marling – Devil’s Spoke
Al Lloyd-Walking With Ghosts – Bonny Ship The Diamond Egyptian Reggae Medley
Bill Callahan – All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast
The Paul Mckenna Band – Carnlough Bay
Karine Polwart – Faultlines
A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Waltz For Strings And Tuba
Roddy Woomble – Hour After Hour
Bert Jansch – Bring Your Religion
Darren Black – Walls Of Familiarity
Vio Mire – A Nice Spot Somewhere in The Woods
Martha Tilston – Seabirds
cath and phil tyler – yellowhammer
Grand Union – Sally Free And Easy
Balto – The Railyard
tim buckley – make it right
Port O’brien – I Woke Up Today
Mountain Man – Sewee Sewee
Philip Henry And Hannah Martin – Separation Of Soul And Body
Bosque Brown – So Loud
Farriers – Shore
The Imagined Village – The Lark In The Morning
The Low Anthem – Ghost Woman Blues
Galley Beggar – Restless Sinners
John Martyn – Ellie Rhee
June Tabor And Martin Simpson – Flash Company
King Creosote – Admiral
bellowhead – a-begging I will go
Jon Boden – When The Walls Come Tumbling Down
The Outside Track – Panic
mark lanegan – cripple creek
paolo nutini – growing up beside you
Samamidon – Little Satchel
Blue rose code – Whitechapel
Emily Barker – Openings
Appendix Out – The Seven Widows (The Sprigs Of Night)
James yorkston and the big eyes family players – Blue bleezin’ blind drunk
Damien O’kane – The Breaking Of Omagh Jail
Catherine Maclellan – Hotel Stairs
marry waterson and oliver knight – rosy
Jackie Oates – Birthday
Lau – Hinba HinbaFunny Weather
Badly Drawn Boy – The Shining
Jonathan Day – Bonnie Light Horseman
Sharon Shannon – Saints & Angels Feat. The Waterboys
Christy Moore – Whiskey In The Jar
the black atlantic – old, dim light
Chatham County Line – Chip Of A Star
fink – blueberry pancakes
The Tallest Man On Earth – Love is All
Eliza Carthy – Write A Letter
This Is The Kit – White Ash Cut
Martin Simpson – Polly On The Shore
Jason Steel – Young People Dancing
Nathaniel Rateliff – Early Spring Till
The Petrels – Slumber Boats
Dougie Maclean – Caledonia
nick drake – rider on the wheel guitar track
barbarossa – lines
David Gibb – Gospel Of The Sun
Fairport Convention – Reynardine
cath and phil tyler – fisherman’s girl
chris bathgate – borders
patrick watson – bright shiny lights
Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes
Johnny Flynn – Eyless in Holloway
Martha Tilston – My Chair
Meg Baird – Moving Up A Ways
Drever Mccusker And Woomble – Into The Blue
sandy denny – blackwaterside
bon iver – re stacks
the unthanks – gan to the kye
Bert Jansch – Bird Song
Pentangle – House Carpenter
David a jaycock – A new love song
Elle Osborne – Lay Me Low
Jack Mcneill – The Passes
Seth Lakeman – Solomon Browne
The Gentle Good – Colled
Nic Jones – The Little Pot Stove
Ryland Bouchard – Part Two Drinking
The Meadowlarks – A Winter Song
Philip Henry And Hannah Martin – Catharsis
Allysen Callery – Brown Eyed Susan
John Martyn – The Message
James Yorkston and The Athletes – The Snow it Melts the Soonest
Thirty Pounds Of Bone – Crack Shandy In The Harbour
Roddy Woomble – New Frontier
James yorkston and the big eyes family players – Just as the tide was flowing
Dick Gaughan – Crooked Jack
jim white – take me away
Galley Beggar – Arise Arise
the imagined village – the hand weaver and the factor
Bert Jansch And John Renbourn – East Wind
Cam Penner – Cool Cool Nights
Gillian Welch – Red Clay Halo
agnostic mountain gospel choir – nehemiah’s misfortune
Ane Brun – Balloon Ranger
Trees – Geordie
Cocoon – In My Boat
June Tabor And Martin Simpson – Heather Down On The Moor
Heidi Talbot – Bantry Girls
Devendra Banhart – Hotel St Sebastian
Lucy Ward – The Two Sisters
Darren Black – Decisions
Jason Steel – The Bonny Black Hare
The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
richard thompson – a brother slips away
Karine Polwart – The Sun’s Coming Over The Hill
The Outside Track – Le Voyage
fleet foxes – battery kinzie
Natalie Merchant – Spring And Fall To A Young Child
Gary Higgins – Down On The Farm
Johnny Flynn – Brown Trout Blues
Eliza Carthy – Revolution
Angus and Julia Stone – Bella
Damien O’kane – Dobbins Flowery Vale
Christy Moore – Tribute To Ewan Mccoll
David Gibb – Summer Is A Cumin In
William Fitzsimmons – Find Me To Forgive
Jackie Oates – May The Kindness
This Is The Kit – Moon
sea birds – weaker fires
Bella Hardy – Good Friday
Pentangle – Light Flight
King Creosote – Saw Circular Prowess
Jeff Pianki – Reenactment Pt. 2
Fairport Convention – Come All Ye
Shearwater – Meridian
Marissa Nadler – In A Magazine
Martha Tilston – Good World
Sharon Van Etten – A Crime
smoke fairies – blue skies fall
Ger Wolfe – The Waking Dreams
bob dylan – I shall be released
Jonathan Day – Vagabond
Samamidon – Wil Bill Jones
John Martyn – Small Hours (Live At Regent’s)
Laura Veirs – Wide Eyed Legless
Atom Orr – This Was Tomorrow
Emily Barker – Little Deaths
Bert Jansch – Silly Women
The Avett Brothers – At The Beach
Steve Earle – Waitin’ On The Sky
Martin Simpson – Stagolee
Colin Meloy – Barbara Allen
The Decemberists – Rise To Me
Elle Osborne – Dalesman’s Litany
barbarossa – earthclock
Sarah Jarosz – Run Away
Jack Mcneill – Coastlines
Gillian Welch – By The Mark
I Draw Slow – Mama Don’t Cry
Thomas Denver Jonsson and The September Sunrise – Black And Blue (Pale Angel You)
The Paul Mckenna Band – Dancing In The Dark
Arborea – Red Bird
Eddie Vedder – Satellite
Al Lloyd-Walking With Ghosts – Bonny Ship The Diamond Egyptian Reggae Medley
Jason Steel – Baby Doll
Delta Spirit – Streetwalker
willam elliott whitmore – old devils
Jarlath Henderson – The Old Bush Set
matt bauer – poor robin
The Innocence Mission – The Leaves Lift High
Lucy Ward – Julia
Seabear – Seashell
vetiver – can’t you tell
Chris Wood – Riches On The Bold
the be good tanyas – a little blues
Roddy Woomble – Living As You Always Have
Lisa Hannigan – Splishy Splashy
Jim Moray – Leaving Australia
Kele goodwin – Kite strings
Ben Weaver – Split Ends
Galley Beggar – Shifting Sands
The Outside Track – The Turkish Revery
Angus and Julia Stone – Silver Coin
Book Club – Ain’t Gonna Drink No More
Eliza Carthy – Mohair
Sean Hayes – Garden
Pearl And The Beard – Sweetness
marry waterson and oliver knight – the loosened arrow
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – I Come In Please
Rozi Plain – End Can Come
James yorkston and the big eyes family players – Hills of greenmoor
Chatham County Line – Alone In New York
ewan robertson – vincent black lightning
My Brightest Diamond – The Brightest Diamond
Seth Lakeman – Hearts And Minds
the lancaster orchestra – rocks, spits and cries
danger mouse & daniele luppi – black feat. norah jones
bellowhead – the hand weaver and the factory maid
Fairport Convention – Farewell, Farewell
Slow Club – Summer Shakedown
chris bathgate – levee
Lau – Results Come On Wee Man!Waiting For The Results
Vio Mire – Shrinking Coasts
our feathered embers – riverboat blues
Martha Tilston – Wave Machine
langhorne slim and the war eagles – spinning compass
mount moriah – lament
nick drake – one of these things first
jack rose and the black twig pickers – little sadie
Elle Osborne – Bonnie George Campbell
Samamidon – Saro
Dick Gaughan – The Snows They Melt The Soonest
Cocoon – Baby Scal
Maple Mountain – Devon Dream
the unthanks – the gallowgate lad
Ger Wolfe – The Velvet Earth
Jill Barber – Hard Line
hurray for the riff raff – meet me in the morning
Pentangle – Wedding Dress
Caitlin Rose – That’s Alright
Eddie Vedder – Longing To Belong
Jonathan Day – Yellow Eyed Crow
Michael Hurley – Be Kind To Me
fink – honesty
cath and phil tyler – wether’s skin
Natalie Merchant – If No One Ever Marries Me
Philip Henry And Hannah Martin – Queen Gwendolen
John smith – To have so many
Martin Simpson – Wholly In My Keeping
Nancy Elizabeth – Hey Son
the abramson singers – fool’s gold
richard thompson – stumble on
john martyn – solid air
Andrew Bird – Imitosis
The Innocence Mission – North American Field Song
Bert Jansch – Tell Me What Is True Love
The Strugglers – Riding
fleet foxes – bedouin dress
penguin cafe – sundog
Matthew and The Atlas – I Will Remain
gorkys zygotic mynci – spanish dance troupe
Jim Moray – I’ll Go List For A Sailor
bob dylan – knockin’ on heaven’s door
Tom Waits – Walk Away
Eliza Carthy – Tea At Five
Grand Union – John Riley
The Paul Mckenna Band – Daylight
South San Gabriel – Charred Resentment The Same
Ewan Mccoll-Sam Larner-Walking With Ghosts – Mr Stormalong
Steve Tilston – Fairweather Love
Drever Mccusker And Woomble – All Along The Way
Sarah Jarosz – Annabelle Lee
Bruce Springsteen – Erie Canal
agnostic mountain gospel choir – the boig
Elam Blackman – Up The Ante
I Draw Slow – Low Down Girl Like Me
Small engine repair – Dream boat
James yorkston and the big eyes family players – Old maid
Jason Steel – Box Of Precious
Casey Edward Denman – Along The Crooked Pathway
David Gibb – Darby And Joan
Niamh Ni Charra – Cailleach An Airgid
Ewan Mclennan – Jock Stewart
Mary hampton – Silver dagger
Trees – Streets Of Derry
planxty – the lakes of pontchartrain
alasdair roberts and friends – the lover’s ghost
The Decemberists – Calamity Song
paolo nutini – autumn
Charlie Parr – 1922
Spenking – Boy Moses
Martha Tilston – Corporations
Seabear – Libraries
Bill Jones – The Fisherboy
Paul Brady – The Creel
Paul Curreri – Greenville
Elle Osborne – Fair Annie
Boo Hewerdine – Harvest Gypsies
Liz Carroll And John Doyle – A Pound A Week Rise
Rio En Mendio And Israel Cilio – Mary
Stan Kelly-Walking With Ghosts – Blow The Man Down
Alasdair Roberts – The Magpie’s Nest
Cara Dillon – Johnny Lovely Johnny
The Gentle Good – Tethered For The Storm
simone white – you may be in the darkness
Vetiver – Won’t Be Me
Small Houses – I’m Old and You Are New
marry waterson and oliver knight – yolk yellow legged
Samamidon – Wil Bill Jones
catriona mckay & chris stout – missing you
Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Lough Erne Shore
Skygreen Leopards – William and the Sacred Hammer
Walking With Ghosts – Australia Bankrobber Medley
Pauline Scanlon – Rain And Snow
Eliza Carthy – Rows Of Angels
Arborea – Ides Of March
The Petrels – Minnie Of Sherva’s Cradle Song
Fotheringay – Wild Mountain Thyme
Cathie Ryan – Home By Bearna
Dylan Leblanc – Ain’t Too Good At Losing
harry manx – shadow of the whip
Moriarty – Oshkosh Blend
Michael Hurley – Light Green Fellow
Lucy Ward – A Stitch In Time
Loch Lomond – Elephants and Little Girls
Frankie Gavin, Rick Epping & Tim Edey – Frank Quinn’s Reels
gay woods – dark eyed sailor
Ted Wendler – Darlin’
Jonathan Day – The Heron The Stickleback And The Shrew
Fairport Convention – Reynardine
Ger Wolfe – The Waking Dreams
The iona Marshall Band – Your Shoal
Emily Barker – Dancers
Jason Steel – Baby Doll
Bert Jansch – High Days
Treetop Flyers – Is It All Worth It
Bruce Springsteen – Mrs. Mcgrath
Chris Garneau – Dirty Night Clowns
Nathaniel Rateliff – Boil And Fight
richard thompson – haul me up
Catherine Maclellan – Hotel Stairs
Pentangle – Waltz
The Outside Track – Caroline Of Edinburgh Town
Main image: Alasdair Roberts