Just Behind The Creek is a wonderful testament to just how vibrant the current music scene is in the Estill Mountain region of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. If you like traditional Folk, Bluegrass, Blues and Mountain Music this album will bring a smile of appreciation to your face, if you don’t, then this release might just convert you.

Today marks the release of Glenaphuca, the stunning debut album by Irish/English singer and multi-instrumentalist Lewis Barfoot. We have the pleasure of sharing the album alongside a personal track-by-track guide to the album.

Maverick Thinker is an uplifting and unrelenting joy that, melodically and lyrically, displays the coming of age of Ruarri Joseph. It deserves your attention.

Watch Iona Fyfe and Michael Biggins, performing her new single ‘The Wild Geese’ which also marks a successful campaign she led for Spotify to add Scots to its list of languages.

Eric D. Johnson chats to KLOF Mag about his last twenty years in music from working with The Shins to Bonny Light Horseman, as well as Fruit Bats and his new album The Pet Parade.

Berlin-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Clipper shares the title-track video for his new album Heron’s Book of Dreams, written while at Arcosanti, AZ – a prototype arcology designed by Paolo Soleri.

Cedars is a beguiling and quietly astonishing piece of work, where Stuart Hyatt’s overarching vision finds its perfect counterweight in an immensely talented and varied array of musicians.

‘A Pocket Full of Acorns’ is Ninebarrow’s strongest and most ambitious album to date on which they are joined by the Ninebarrow band for an expanded sound and even some grittier moments.

Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird’s ‘These 13’ is the kind of effort that illustrates how traditions can be passed down from generation to generation while adding elements that continue to breathe new life into old forms.

With The Pet Parade, Eric D. Johnson doesn’t rework the past like Bonny Light Horseman, rather he creates moments filled with the glory of a world where you have an opportunity to find your own place. An album that’s sure to find the kind of audience Eric D. Johnson has only imagined.

To celebrate the release of ‘The Best of 365’, we catch up with Scottish fiddler, composer and producer Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) to chat about his 30 album project “365″. We also chat about his other projects as well as exciting future plans including a virtual Lau-Land on 27 March.

Featuring collaborations with Joey Burns and John Convertino from Calexico, Dean Owens first release in his Desert Trilogy EPs will certainly make the wait for the album even harder to bear.