Sam Lee’s follow-up album ‘The Fade in Time’ is an impassioned album of hugely ambitious scope; a historical document that at the same time belongs firmly in the 21st century.
Ross Darby, front man and songwriter of The Fallows has sets himself a challenge to get a song into the official Top 40 singles chart on just £99, all proceeds going to a charity for the homeless.
Captain of None is the new album from French multi-instrumentalist Colleen which is due for release via Thrill Jockey on April 7th, listen to the title track here.
Canadian Michael Feuerstack is a one man music industry and The Forgettable Truth is the latest poetic bulletin in an extraordinary career and a record to harmonise head and heart.
To say the album is accomplished would belittle the talent on show and the consistency of Steve Ashley’s output over five decades. ‘This Little Game’ may just be one of his best.
Next month on March 9th sees the return of The Woodbine & Ivy Band with Sleep On Sleeping On. Listen to the premiere of Arm a Nation, our Song of the Day.
James McMurtry’s latest offering ‘Complicated Game’ is unflinching in its storytelling, delivered with unembellished honesty and deep empathy, it may well prove one of the finest Americana albums of the year.
William Elliott Whitmore returns in March with a new album. Radium Death marks a sonic change as he plays electric guitar and goes for a fuller sound. Listen to Healing To Do.
Our Song of the Day is from Karen Dalton, a live version of her singing Red are the Flowers. It was recorded at a coffee house called The Attic in Boulder, Colorado in 1962.
We have a Song premiere today from Rathbone, a name that has been winning fans from Zane Lowe to Devendra Banhart. Listen to ‘Little Moment’ from his latest album ‘Soft’.
A one room, one microphone recording with no overdubs by John Parish, the music on Tom Brosseau’s Perfect Abandon is redolent of dust bowl ballads or early Sun sides…stripped of embellishment to reinforce the songs.
Out of the circuit for almost a decade, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have hit a rich vein of form since their return and Tomorrow Will Follow Today finds the duo at their best.
