With a little help from Sam Lakeman and Boo Hewerdine, The Changing Room’s debut Behind The Lace proves a brilliant tribute to the sun, sea and salt air of the Cornish southwest. It is one of those delightful little gems, one you should all seek out.

With each successive work Spiro seem to get better, as the hours playing with and for each other have their effect. Intense, calming, complex, minimal, meditative and playful the Spiro machine whirs into majestic life to Welcome Joy Welcome Sorrow drawing its fuel from the life to be lived.

Our Song of the Day is from London-based singer songwriter Nigel Brown with a new song called Grasshopper which he is planning to use on his new forthcoming album Time Looks On. A sorrowful tale which begins with quitting school young, working hard on the land and the arrival of four daughters…but life is far from plain sailing.

On the Demon Barbers latest offering a bewildering array of styles is woven into the pieces, as traditional folk songs are reinterpreted with a contemporary dance music twist. Overlaid by Damien Barber’s powerful, passionate vocal, it all results in a stunning collection of foot-tapping brilliance.

Sam Brookes has released a new video for Crazy World and You from his album Kairos. There is some beautiful choreography which just serves to intensify the emotion Sam creates with that great voice of his.

The Lilac Time release their Ninth Album ‘No Sad Songs’, an album that is charged with an uplifting, buoyant vision of life. Given its April release, a quote TS Eliot quote fromThe Waste Land seems appropriate – “ breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” Go gather.

We have a great track premiere today from Barna Howard with Indiana Rose taken from his new forthcoming album Quite A Feelin’, out May 18th via Loose Music.

Meg Baird will release a new studio album on 22nd June titled ‘Don’t Weigh Down the Light’, you can hear the first track unveiled from the album entitled ‘Counterfeiters’.

Our Song of the Day is from acoustic instrumental four piece Spiro with their latest video for Burning Bridge as featured on their forthcoming new album “Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow” which will be released on 13 April 2015 on Real World Records.

Watch the latest video from Ryley Walker for Sweet Satisfaction taken from his latest album Primrose Green. The spirit of John Martyn is very present on this track. Ryley kicks off his European tour this month including several dates in the UK.

In the final video interview series for the new album ‘Murmurs’ from Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr, Martin introduces his 1935/36 Gibson L-OO, a 1960’s De Armond pickup and a 1958 Magnatone amplifier. The combination is a sound unlike any other as he demonstrates on The Boston Smuggler.

Karl Culley’s fourth offering is, as the name suggests, a stripped-down affair but his clever, intricate guitar picking creates the illusion that there is more than simply the singer and his guitar.