Hailing from Yukon, The Lucky Ones deliver their own brand of bluegrass on a promising self-titled debut throughout which there’s a strong sense of family and community.
The idea behind Brooks Williams’ ‘Ghost Owl’ may have been relatively simple but the magic lies in its execution. Joined by Aaron Catlow, Ghost Owl is a thing of beauty and the barn owl has the perfect soundtrack to its twilight habits.
At the heart of Spiers & Boden’s “Fallow Ground” is the utter joy of two friends making music together. It’s a joyful, exciting, and beautifully produced release and it’s so great to have them back.
Jon Patrick Walker reveals his video for the light-hearted, sun-drenched, blissfully vintage, easy-rolling ‘Auto-tune My Love’. A slick little number that opens his new album “The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs”.
River Lea announces Fire Draw Near – an album of Irish traditional songs and music from the archives, compiled by Ian Lynch of Dublin band Lankum which will be released on October 8th, 2021.
Featuring Clare Sands & Bridin, The Bonny Men, Owen Shiers, Nick Hart, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, False Lights, The Willows, Trú, Antoni Breskey, Lisa Knapp, James Yorkston, The Memory Band, Kathryn Tickell, Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock, Oysterband, The Rheingans Sisters & more.
Throughout ‘Home No More’, the Folkatron Sessions make clever use of subtle experimentation to enhance and celebrate traditional song. This is experimental folk at its best. Excellent.
With sympathetic arrangements moving alongside each other fluidly throughout and Steve Gunn’s voice to the fore, ‘Other You’ is his most elegant sounding solo record yet.
We rejoin Ye Vagabonds who are currently on their ‘All Boats Rise’ tour. They update us on their journey after Belmont as they make their way to Ballycommon via Pollagh and Rahan playing gigs with Feli Speaks and John Francis Flynn along the way.
The Frank Burkitt Band return next month with Silvereye. Taken from the album, watch their latest video for ‘World King’, a scathing biography of Boris Johnson that carries a hint of optimism and hope for change.
Featuring songs from landworkers and some well-known folk singers, ‘Stand Up Now’ is a beautiful and enchanting album that uses its traditional sound to explore a range of political issues surrounding the agricultural industry. Ultimately, it’s an album about hope; hope for a better, fairer world.
Martin Callingham premieres a beautifully animated video for his new single Scully, taken from his highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Patterns’ due for release this November. Callingham clearly hasn’t lost any of his touch for painting in the pastoral light.
