Yet another fine addition to the River Lea record label – Irish folk music is in a very healthy state at the moment and with The Hare’s Lament, Ye Vagabonds have emerged as its most accomplished exponents.
Scran are a young Manx trad group from the Isle of Man whose talents have been nurtured by the island’s cultural organisation, Culture Vannin. Their debut album Nane is an album that bristles with a youthful vigour that leaves you marvelling at the talents on display.
Today marks the launch of Here’s The Truth, the new single from Keston Cobblers’ Club which is accompanied by a colourful new video. The song is the fourth single to be taken from their forthcoming album Siren ( out on 12th April).
Our Song of the Day is “Fool’s Game”, the new single from Glen Hansard’s upcoming fourth solo album This Wild Willing, set to be released April 12 via ANTI- Records. Watch the accompanying video filmed by Myles O’Reilly in Paris, France.
Steve Earle’s ‘Guy’ stands as both a terrific tip of the hat to Guy Clark (who he first met in ’74), a seminal Americana figure and a damn fine Earle album in its own right.
Calexico and Iron & Wine today announce ‘Years To Burn’, their first full–length album together. Listen to lead track “Father Mountain”. An extensive European tour has been announced for November.
Rhiannon Giddens’ latest album ‘there is no Other’, recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, is set for a May 3 release on Nonesuch Records. Watch the video for album track “I’m On My Way”.
Our Song of the Day comes from Swimming Bell, the solo project of Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland. For Brinsley features on her new album, Wild Sight which is out on April 5th.
Brooklyn based solo guitar player (and Ancient Ocean member) J.R. Bohannon’s newly extended mini-album, originally self-released on Bandcamp, now being put out by Phantom Limb records is an album of deliberately paced and played gems.
Our Song of the Day comes from Rozi Plain with her latest single ‘Swing Shut’, from her upcoming album ‘What A Boost’ on Memphis Industries, coming 5th April 2019.
It’s an album that solidly consolidates the success of her debut, but digs a little deeper on the way. Spine-tingling and a touch inscrutable. This is an album with mysteries worth investigating.
In a nutshell, Norine Braun’s ‘Through Train Windows’ is a distinctly Canadian musical mosaic that will send the listener on a journey they will want to take again and again.
