Our Song of the Day is from Bear’s Den performing ‘A Year Ago Today’ . They begin their most ambitious tour to date in May starting with the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Our latest session is from the fabulous ‘Stick in the Wheel’ – aggressively reclaiming traditional material and writing raw original songs with a realness and honesty that has a sound all its own.
Watch the video interview of Martin and Eliza Carthy talking about their first ever duo album together ‘The Moral of the Elephant’ which includes tributes to Mike Waterson and Michael Marra.
Luaka Bop are to release William Onyeabor – What?! featuring remixes and covers of the remarkably elusive African electronic artist William Onyeabor. Listen to Hot Chip’s cover track.
The Gene Clark No Other Band feat. an allstar cast including Robin Pecknold, Daniel Rossen and ex-Fairport Convention member Iain Matthews to reconstruct the Byrds’ Gene Clark’s 1974 masterpiece.
James Apollo and his band of roustabouts releases their new album Angelorum on 12 May (UK) from which he has just revealed the new video Spinnin. Plus listen to his ‘Road Mix’ for FRUK.
Our Song of the Day is from a video of John Fahey performing ‘Red Pony’ in 1969. You can now pre-order first definitive biography John Fahey which is out in June this year.
Sam Brookes talks to FRUK exclusively about joining a choir as a child, inspired by his mother, to his father’s workshop and guitars, to sharing a stage on Newton Faulker’s sell out tour.
Phosphorescent announce Record Store Day 12″ EP featuring ‘Song For Zula’ and three solo acoustic tracks including this one: A New Anhedonia. Watch the live video.
Our Song of the Day is a live video session of Kris Drever feat. Éamonn Coyne performing Mark The Hard Earth, the title track of Kris Drever’s 2nd album which has just been remastered.
This Friday BBC 4 pays tribute to the legendary Bert Jansch with the televising of ‘The Genius of Bert Jansch’ featuring archive footage & a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall.
