On what would have been her 100th birthday, Mississippi Records is today celebrating the brilliance and vision of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru with a new single and the announcement of a major new release, her self-recorded vocal album, Souvenirs.
Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023. As he states in his introduction, it was no easy task to whittle down from hundreds to just ten, but here they are…including Bex Burch, John Francis Flynn, ØXN, Maxine Funke, Brìghde Chaimbeul and more.
Scottish singer songwriter Adam Holmes shares the video for his new single Go Lassie Go, taken from his new album ‘The Voice of Scotland’. “This album is a commitment to this life as a communicator via the medium of songs and stories.”
Recommended: Out now on Sean Conrad’s Seattle-based ambient/devotional Inner Islands label, Wide Ranging Rider is the latest offering from Stefan Beck, aka Golden Brown…emblazoned with originality throughout.
The award-winning ‘broken folk’ duo Lunatraktors have a festive alter-ego – Yulatraktors. Their new album ‘Solstice Wyrd’ drops tomorrow. Watch their new video for ‘Remember the Poor, ‘ an old ballad that is increasingly relevant today.
A new Monday Morning Brew ft. Piers Faccini & Dawn Landes, Anna Mieke, Daniel Bachman, SUSS, Lee Baggett, L CON, Niall Summerton, Gunn – Truscinski -Nace, André 3000, Daudi Matsiko, Daisy Rickman, Wes Tirey and Adrianne Lenker, Alabaster DePlume, Joanna Sternberg and more.
Our Song of the Day comes from outsider folk mystic Lee Baggett with Zipper Ride, a blissful meditation that leaves me smiling every time I hear it…taken from his new album ‘Echo Me On’, released this month on Perpetual Doom.
Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden, Nick Hart & Tom Moore, Bernard Wrigley, Peter Bellamy, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Alasdair Roberts, Steeleye Span, Fay Hield, The Left Outsides, The Owl Service, Norma Waterson and more.
We meet up with English folk masters Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, our current Artists of the Month, to talk about their wonderful new album Glad Christmas Comes and rum topped diplomacy…
Emma Tricca has released a new digital single, Rain & Tears, a song by Aphrodite’s Child – the progressive Greek rock and pop band founded in 1967 that included Demis Roussos and Vangelis, who died last year.
The poet, writer, musician, activist and self-proclaimed ‘Rasta Folkie’ Benjamin Zephaniah has died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
