Taken from his forthcoming covers album ‘A Restless, Hungry Feeling’, listen to Jason McNiff covering Bert Jansch’s ‘Running from Home’. Plus, read how Jason fell under his influence and first came to see Bert perform at a weekly residency in London.
Taken from their latest album Tonebeds for Poetry, Stick in the Wheel have shared an accompanying video for Long the Day – somewhere between Flotus-era Lambchop and the hypnagogic avant-pop of Dean Blunt.
Lately is by far the most immediate and accessible album Lilly Hiatt’s made, packed with Top 40-friendly hooks and choruses, it’s infectiously irresistible.
Watch Bird Queen Of Garbage Island, the new single from Canada’s garage-folk oddballs The Burning Hell. The accompanying video was created by the award-winning New Brunswick multi-media artist Graeme Patterson. They are on tour in the UK this month.
David Keenan’s ‘What Then?”, builds on his phenomenal debut in the same way that Finnegan’s Wake was a quantum leap for Joyce, a defining work of visceral genius from a soul aflame with both the poetry of his ancestors and the fire of the future.
Megson are releasing a covers album in early 2022 titled ‘Unknown Waters’ featuring songs by Jez Lowe, Richard Grainger, Graeme Miles, Vin Garbutt, Chris Rea and Ruth Copeland. They are taking pre-orders now for those that want it early.
Taken from Malcolm MacWatt’s forthcoming new album “Settler”, watch the accompanying lyric video for Avalanche and Landslide, a protest song featuring Jaimee Harris – United we stand, divided we fall.
The Rhythms of Migration is a migratory musical masterpiece and an outstanding album from our Artists of the Month: Freedom to Roam, featuring Eliza Marshall, Catrin Finch, Jackie Shave, Kuljit Bhamra, Donal Rogers, Robert Irvine, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott & Joby Burgess.
Henry Parker’s Lammas Fair is an album full of old wisdom and new beginnings, deeply rooted in the wild landscape of northern England, but ultimately outward-looking and welcoming.
Featuring Duo Ruut, Mànran, Rab Noakes, Willie Watson, Samuel Beer, Jacob & Drinkwater, The Wooden Sky, Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, Ye Vagabonds, Hartwin Dhoore Trio, Rubus, Trù, Tissø Lake, Nick Jonah Davis, Alela Diane, Thisell, The Story Song Scientists.
Next month, Matt Patershuk returns with his new album An Honest Effort. Taken from that album, watch him performing a special live solo take of 1.3 Miles…a tale involving fate or maybe luck, you decide.
