The ever inventive Keston Cobblers’ Club got together recently in the Cobblers’ back room (image above) and came up with this cover of Ya Hey! (Vampire Weekend).
Haiku Salut’s debut album Tricolore can’t be taken at face value, there are depths of colour and emotion here to set the imagination wandering (or wondering) and the spine tingling. This is an absolute gem of an album.
Our Song of the Day is the new single from Heidi Talbot: Button Up is taken from her critically acclaimed album Angels Without Wings and features Kenny Anderson (AKA King Cresote).
Willy Gantrim has scored up an impressive debut album with Alone and Adrift. A truly honest delta-blues record, loaded with the dusty sounds of the American South West and Gantrim’s Dylan-esque rusty timbre.
Sibylle Baier has built a cult following since the limited release of Colour Green in 2006, an album that featured recordings she’d made in the early ’70s. Finally a vinyl reissue has been announced!
This lovely video session of Barna Howard was recorded recently at the Portland Playhouse, he performs “Turns Around The Bottle” which featured on his self-titled debut LP.
Aventine finds Agnes Obel in a darker, more plaintive mood following her 2010 breakthrough but all the signs point to a songwriter going from strength to strength.
Our Song of the Day is a lovely cover of a Lal Waterson song called ‘To Make You Stay’. It featured on a 2007 covers tribute and is performed by The Memory Band featuring the lovely voice of Nancy Wallace.
Watch Billy Bragg performing an impromptu cover of Long Black Veil with Joe Purdy, plus a 1969 flashback to Johnny Cash performing the same song with Joni Mitchell.
