January 2020

My Darling Clementine (Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish) share video for Elvis Costello cover ‘Stranger In The House’. They kick-off their UK tour this month before they head to Norway and the US.

The Magic Lantern shares new single ‘Family Affair’ – “one of the songs I’m most proud of. Stripped back, raw, direct – these are simplest and most profound tools I’ve got right now.”

Infused with the soul of the great Irish writers and such visionary boho barroom bards as Waits, Morrison, Burroughs or Bukowski, Keenan’s album is surely unlike any other album you’ll hear this year, the breathtaking arrival of a luminous talent.

The Bonny Light Horseman continue to their tantalising revelations of their traditional song reimaginings as they share their fourth album single ‘The Roving’, also our Song of the Day.

The Unconquerable past is an album that grows on you the more you listen,  the message is clear,  while the past may seem to be unconquerable, that’s no reason to give up the fight.

Our Song of the Day comes from Irish duo The Lost Brothers. Watch their video for After the Fire, the second single from their forthcoming album “After The Fire After The Rain” due for release February 2020.

Taken from his latest album 2020 which made it into several of our End of year lists, Richard Dawson shares his video for ‘Dead Dog in an Alleyway’.

Exposed and honest, Weber has regrets but no apologies for who he is, for what drives him, for the heartache in his wake, in the search of making the music in his head. It’s a high price, but this album repays every wounded moment in full.

Featuring songs from the original album alongside new material and stunning animation, Teesside folk trio The Young’uns perform a new theatrical version of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff.

Bob Fish catches up with Richard Thompson as he passes through Evanston, Illinois on tour. He talks about urban myths, fanatics, his influences, writing process, jamming with Jimi Hendrix and more.

LA-based experimental songwriter Julia Holter will score a screening of the classic 1920s silent film The Passion of Joan Arc in the latest commission from Opera North.

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘Unearth Repeat’, Sam Sweeney has shared his first album single ‘The Old Wagon Way’, also our Tune of the Day.

Scottish folk musician, composer and tutor, Hamish Napier, has announced that his third solo album, The Woods, is to be released on 20th March 2020.

There are, undoubtedly, many out there who, like Joseph back in 1973, remain ignorant of Phil Ochs and for whom, as the notes say, this will afford a nudge forward. That it also happens to be one of Joseph’s finest albums is an added bonus.