Making a first vocal album is a leap that has paid off for Steph Geremia on ‘If Tomorrow’. It was produced by John McCusker and features an all-star cast including Eddi Reader, Kris Drever, Alan Kelly, John Doyle, Mike McGoldrick, Phil Cunningham, Donald Shaw, Alice Allen & Ian Carr.
Liz Hanks is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them. Liz’s new album, Land, is out now on Hudson Records.
Watch the mighty Pentangle performing ‘Blues In Time’, recorded in January 1971 by the BBC. Jacqui McShee sits out this one, leaving Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox to work their instrumental magic.
Taken from their second album, ‘The Beautiful Road‘, Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly share a beautiful video for their new single ‘King of the Kingdom (Rí A’Ríocht)’. Rónán says after his dance, “…it’s like a medicine”…it is.
Upon first listening, Shana Cleveland’s ‘Manzanita’ is a beautiful and sonically satisfyingly album with well-written singles, but the real depth is found in its completeness, in its consuming, hypnotising curiosity and unapologetic declaration of love on a trip along the Pacific Coast Highway.
The Mary Wallopers announce their new album, ‘Irish Rock N Roll’ and share their lead single ‘Wexford’, written by the legendary Irish travelling musician Pecker Dunne, whose songs were covered by the likes of The Dubliners…Anne Briggs also busked with him in Ireland.
There is a shrewd exuberance in the way Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman play together on Lady of the Lake, taking turns to lead and leaving plenty of space for each other to shine; it will leave you wanting more.
Watch the animated video (by Pat Gubler and Mayuko Fujino) for ‘I Have a House’, the new single from P.G. Six, taken from his forthcoming new album Murmurs & Whispers – Modern folk music at its most psychedelically progressive.
GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Lori McKenna’s latest album, 1988, is both deeply personal and universally resonant; it’s up there with her very best.
Listen to The Monday Morning Brew feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Sam Burton, The Lilac Time, Blake Mills, Julie Byrne, Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz, Huw Marc Bennett, The Handsome Family, Matthew Halsall, Ursula K. Le Guinn & Todd Barton, Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak and more.
Our latest Mixtape features music from Jimmie Driftwood, J.J. Cale, Julie Doiron, Damien Jurado & Richard Swift, Laura J Martin, Sister O. M. Terrell, Adrian Crowley, Dirty Projectors, Saint Sister, Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini, Carolyn Hester and more.
Andrew Bird announces Outside Problems, a new album out 21st July on Loma Vista Recordings that emphasises the importance of environmental preservation. Watch the video for Mo Teef, made by Tyler Mason in partnership with Patagonia.
