Based out of L.A., Stand True is the second full-length album from The Americans, showcasing their roots-rock Americana in solid style and making a good argument for them to be considered up there with the best of the new standard-bearers.
Alice Allen and Patsy Reid, two of Scotland’s most in-demand ‘bi-lingual’ Scottish musicians release ‘Strathspey Queens’ today, an album celebrating the work of fiddler and composer and Scottish dancing master, James Scott Skinner.
Katie Spencer’s ‘The Edge of the Land’ doesn’t feel the need to over-embellish its sound; it has the spontaneity that live performance captures combined with arrangements that are unfussy but quietly adventurous. Let this one live with you for a while to discover its powers.
Watch the accompanying video to Kathryn Williams’ new single ‘Answer in the Dark’, taken from ‘Night Drives’, her first official album since ‘Hypoxia’ in 2015. It finds Kathryn exploring a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation.
Ahead of his UK and European Tour this summer, watch Joshua Ray Walker, “country’s most fascinating young songwriter”, performing an acoustic version of ‘Sexy After Dark’ from his latest album, ‘See You Next Time’.
A new ‘Dylan60’ Microsite launches today alongside a new music video for Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues 2022″, to commemorate Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a ‘recording artist of immeasurable musical and cultural impact’.
Reflective and reverent, with Nine Waves Ye Vagabonds prove once again to be at the forefront of an ever-evolving, flourishing Irish folk scene and have done so in the most understated and inspired fashion imaginable.
Watch the accompanying video for Eel Song, the remarkable new single from The Shackleton Trio which tells the story of the European Eel. It’s one of the best folk songs I’ve heard this year and is also our Song of the Day.
If you think you know what ‘joyous’ means, you will think again when you’ve heard ‘Not Leaving Quietly’ by Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble. It’s breathtaking.
Thread is the latest single from Bristolian singer-songwriter Clara Mann. It’s also our Song of the Day. Like Molly Drake, she shares that similar vivid poetic vision, her songs are both calming, ambiguous and beautifully crafted.
You don’t have to be religious to feel the spirit that imbues the songs on ‘When Do We Get Paid’. The Staples Jr. Singers have put it in every groove of the original record.
Listen to Bróna McVittie’s new single – The Woman in the Moon, the title track of her new album, and Tiocfaidh an Samhradh, the first traditional Irish Gaelic song she has included in her solo repertoire, are truly visionary and refreshing.
