August 2023

Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, activist and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell shares a video for her irresistible new single ‘Snakelife’; …a conjuring; a summoning; a spell; an invocation of the Afro-Future-Rainbow-Coalition-Transformative.

Robbie Robertson, Canadian lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band, has died at age 80. We share some magic moments with Bob Dylan and The Band, including The Basement Tapes, when Dylan went electric, and the legendary 1971 Academy Of Music concerts.

Michele Stodart shares the video for ‘Tell Me’, a brave conversation between the truth and lies of a relationship… It’s the first single released from her new album ‘Invitation’, reflecting motherhood, relationships, mental health, transformation, endings and new beginnings.

In the run-up to his Moseley Folk headline appearance, Graham Nash talks to Folk Radio about politics, old friends, and the magic of music – “It’s the duty of every artist to reflect the times in which we live.”

Taken from their new Cove EP (out now on HudsonRecords), watch Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak performing ‘Vaishnava Jana To/Quiet Joys of Brotherhood’ – a devotional piece regularly heard and sung in India and poem by Richard Fariña.

Myles O’Reilly recalls some of the magical moments experienced with Rónán Ó Snodaigh while making their new album, ‘The Beautiful Road’, at a “quaint cabin, isolated from the world’s noise…where boundaries between reality and imagination blur”.

Ahead of his appearance at the Green Man Festival and a string of UK dates, Spencer Cullum shares his new single ‘Could We, Canvey’, a song about visiting his father’s childhood home of Canvey Island, Essex.

The Endless Coloured Ways is a brilliantly realised, perfectly sequenced tribute that, because of the sheer creative variety on show, never spills over into hagiography, and always prioritises Nick Drake’s musical heritage over the cult of his personal history.

Pat Gubler, aka P.G. Six, chats to Folk Radio about his new album ‘Murmurs & Whispers’ – the artwork, songs and themes, Irish harp, folk music (including Maddy Prior, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn), collaborating with Sharron Kraus and more.

Faithfully rendered and recorded with a clear affection for the music, ‘My Love of Country’ is another fine feather in Teddy Thompson’s cap and well worthy of a slot in any old-school country fan’s collection.

The music on ‘Playing for the Man at the Door – Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971’ is totally engrossing – wild wolflike blues, red in tooth and clawhammer; rawness and reality, without the spit and polish of record label recordings.

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew featuring Ngozi Family, Shirley Collins, Damien Jurado, Marion Williams, Karen Dalton, Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak, Avita Raz, Joseph Decosimo, Kikagaku Moyo, Clem Snide, Marie Bashiru, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, The Hermit, Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes and lots more

With Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning, Chief Adjuah presents a forceful, sometimes brutal, album filled with rhythms that overlap and overload the senses. Rarely have sound and heritage been so forcefully joined as on this divine ruckus of an album.

Ten months ago, Bill Callahan released YTI​⅃​A​Ǝ​Я on Drag City Records and he has just released his first music video for the album – Last One At The Party – the video shows us a man way out there on an island of his own that sits right at the …