Following our other End of Year lists, here are the best Folk and Alternative EPs, Compilations, Live Albums and Reissue selections chosen by Folk Radio’s editor.
The Editor of Folk Radio shares their top 100 Best Folk and Alternative albums of 2023. A year in review capturing a diverse selection of albums and reflecting the breadth of music covered over the past year.
Featuring music from Alice Gerrard, Michael Hurley, Cian Nugent, Ida Wenøe, Elkhorn, The Circling Sun, Jude Brothers, Marta Del Grandi, Juni Habel, Libby Rodenbough, Joseph Decosimo, Liam Grant and Dougie Poole.
Bob Fish shares his Top 10 Album choices of 2023 that include All the Bees, Complete Mountain Almanac, This is the Kit, Spirit Fest, Spencer Cullum, King Creosote, Nico Paulo and more.
Danny Neill shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023, including Kassi Valazza, Shana Cleveland, Lisa O’Neill, Mick Flannery, Brigid Mae Power, The Circling Sun, Lankum, Ron Sexsmith and more.
David Pratt shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023, including Dengue Fever, Eliza Carthy Trio, Gilmore & Roberts, Les Abranis, Moonlight Benjamin, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Merry Hell and more.
Mike Davies shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023 including, The Lilac Time, Dan Whitehouse, Bella Gaffney, A Winter Union, Ian David Green, Reg Meuross, Viv and Riley, Rod Picott and more.
In 2016, Michael Tanner (Plinth, United Bible Studies, The A. Lords) put together this evocative Winter Solstice Mix…Featuring Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, Dick Gaughan, Martin Carthy, Mike Waterson, John Renbourn and more.
With Collage, Erlend Apneseth Trio move further into experimental territory. Joined by singer Maja Ratkje, Collage is a masterful, almost mesmeric achievement. Their never dull attitude to recording seems to recognise music as a kind of palpable measure of deep time.
This Mixtape went out in January 2021 – a music and poetry special featuring Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton, Hairetis Harper, Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, Adam Horovitz & Liz Berry and more.
Gatineau, Quebec-based composer Nick Schofield announces his new album, Ambient Ensemble, and shares his first single and video ‘On Air’ – “I imagined the music accompanying a painter in her studio, the windows open and the song flowing in and swirling around the artwork.”
Glenn Kimpton shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023 including Daniel Bachman, Salt House, Juni Habel, Bill Orcutt, Liam Grant, Xylouris White, Steve Gunn & David Moore, John Fahey and more.
