Dig into the lyrics of ‘Bonfire and Pine’, the new album from Hope in High Water, and you are instantly hit by the weight of human emotion conveyed in the lyrics from childhood trauma to Grenfell, it’s an album of healing and truth.
Rustic, pastoral and suffused with a sense of tranquillity and of being one with the landscape, Endersby has crafted a quietly enrapturing album about navigating your way through life’s labyrinths with the healing power of nature as your guide.
Too often tributes such as this can fall flat, but on this occasion the obvious respect and love shown by all concerned to the memory and musical acumen of Jack Bruce is well-documented.
Folk Prostate Cancer Concerts returns again this month following last year’s success. The line-up this year includes Kate Rusby, Ralph McTell, Eliza Carthy, Michael McGoldrick Trio, Martin Simpson, Damien O’Kane & Ron Block and more.
For their fourth album, Canadian trio West My Friend enlist a full symphony orchestra and choir to augment their melodic brand of guitar, mandolin and accordion flavoured folk.
In the lead up to her new album next summer, Amy Duncan has again collaborated with animator Tracy Foster on the accompanying video for Medusa which uses Amy’s own photography as inspiration.
In All Weather feels like a high watermark (so far) with the promise of great, and greater things to come. It is an artistic triumph, and certainly Josienne Clarke’s most assured work to date. A remarkable, impeccable collection.
Catherine Rudie shares her new video for Pale Blue Dot, taken from her debut album ‘The Möbius Kiss’ which is released this Friday, 8th November, and is also one of our Featured Albums of the Month.
Their first new material since 2017’s debut album, Go Get Gone, this five-track EP finds The Worry Dolls in fine form. Hopefully, a new full album will be surfacing some time next year, on the evidence here it should be hefty stuff.
In season 4 of Folk on Foot, Matthew Bannister walks with Nancy Kerr, John Jones of Oysterband, Kris Drever, Peggy Seeger, Bella Hardy and Rachel Newton. We hear more from the man behind the microphone.
Kate Rusby is one of the latest recipients of The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s highest award, the Gold Badge. Kate’s latest album, ‘Holly Head’ is her 18th and will be released by Pure Records on 29th November 2019.
A departure from the secular and partly self-penned material on their debut, but remaining firmly rooted in their love of traditional Kentuckian bluegrass, there is an irresistible and infectious joy in what they do, so amen to that.
