Taken from their second album Sing High! Sing Low!, watch the lyric video for Salt Light by The Silver Field – “I wrote this lyric and melody walking home from my studio while living back in the small Derbyshire town where I grew up…”
An album that ranks up there with Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad in its vision of a world bereft of hope… Bostick has tapped into the zeitgeist with a songbook of the times worthy of Steinbeck and Guthrie.
We talk to Gabriel Birnbaum, independent musician and champion of the independent scene. We talk about his latest album Nightwater, the challenges and rewards of recording on a 4-track, Covid-19 and its impact, American politics, refuge in music, the music industry and how it treats artists.
Dan Whitehouse’s Dreamland Tomorrow offers two musically contrasting albums, but both consummate expressions of a master craftsman and wordsmith at the peak of his prowess. It is an album deserving of wide commercial success.
For those that missed Hudson Records Listening Club watch it on-demand. Featuring Andy Bell, Jackie Morris, Rachel Newton, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Jim Molyneux, Beth Porter and Karine Polwart.
Our Song of the Day comes from Buck Curran. Watch his brilliant new video for Ghost On The Hill which was made by his daughter Shylah. The song features on his new album ‘No Love Is Sorrow’.
Featuring Joshua Burnside, iyatraQuartet, Salt House, Gigspanner Big Band, The Askew Sisters, Lizabett Russo, Anna Mieke, Kris Drever, Siobhan Miller, Varo, Skipper’s Alley, India Electric Co. & more.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Nest Collective in partnership with Music Declares Emergency and Culture Declares Emergency are launching an uplifting online offering called Singing with Nightingales: Live at Home.
With his Spring US tour cancelled, David Dondero has instead pored through hours of cell-phone video from years of touring to put together a stirring video for “Laying At Your Feet”, a rare love song from his latest LP, The Filter Bubble Blues.
Our Tune of the Day comes from Fabian Holland with a mesmerising track titled Two Thousand Miles, taken from his forthcoming new album Under The Red Island Bakery. Watch him performing the piece in one-take playing Charango, Lapsteel guitar and acoustic guitar.
Sins We Made is the sophomore outing by Canadian duo Harrow Fair which blasts out of the starting gate. It’s a truly terrific album, indulge in the sins they’ve made, and listen and repent at listening leisure.
On Bloom Innocent – Acoustic, Fink moves beyond the limitations of any particular genre, developing new methods of communication. Blending the electronic and the acoustic worlds is no easy task yet Fin Greenall and company seem to have seamlessly mastered the task.
