Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards premiere and talk about their new video for Dreaming – that sense of freedom & adventure is intensely palpable through both the music, the beautiful choreography and the shared vision of all those involved.
This latest release from Smithsonian Folkways is enough to make old-time American music enthusiasts think all their Christmases have come at once. Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton should be an essential part of any old-time music aficionado’s collection.
The next Hudson Records Listening Club is this Sunday, 31st May at 10.30 am and features Jenny Sturgeon, Inge Thomson and Sarah Hayes, who will be listening to and talking about their album “Northern Flyway”.
Flew the Nest, the latest offering from Indie-Folk singer-songwriter Hayley Sabella, is an album of widescreen arrangements and intimate vocals, suffused with a sense of calm and tranquillity despite the sometimes turbulent nature of the feelings it charts.
The images Ben Kunder lays out on Searching For The Stranger establish a songwriter who is not afraid to expose himself. The raw emotion that he displays gives us a glimpse of what it is like to be alive in a word that swings wildly from one direction to the next.
Weyes Blood has shared a new video for Wild Time – “This song is about yearning for wildness and Mother Nature in a time of chaos. It’s for sensitive people who worry about the fate of humanity and feel powerless to do anything about it.”
Watch Brigid Mae Power’s powerful new single ‘Wearing Red That Eve’ which is also our Song of the Day…a dream-like song that drifts between truthful and imagined scenarios. Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Head Above The Water’.
On the 24th July 2020, Shirley Collins will release Heart’s Ease, her second album for Domino. The first song to be shared from Heart’s Ease is “Wondrous Love”; its tune comes from an 18th Century English ballad. Watch the video here.
Raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina, listen to Sam Burchfield’s latest offering: When We Get Through, a song written during the early days of quarantine and featuring his bandmates and friends.
While this unapologetically no-frills and sounding true to the originals album will appeal to old-time and Black string music fans, banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount offers plenty here to engage the casual listener too.
This line sums up ‘Placebound Spirits’ perfectly – “I have found myself going back to this splendid little EP time and again, becoming utterly mesmerised by its subtle charms, strange nuances and, vitally, the gorgeous music.”
Taken from their latest album ‘Neighbours and Sisters’, watch the latest video from Brighton quartet Bird in the Belly. Bees is a composition about the many folkloric traditions that surround the keeping of bees.
