As we are now in March, this week’s show is themed around the Hare. Featuring Fairport Convention, Martin Carthy, Anne Briggs, Maddy Prior, James Yorkston, Sproatly Smith and lots more.
On Sharing the Covers, Chatham County Line have some self-indulgent fun covering songs by some of their influences from Wilco to bluegrass legend Carter Stanley, even John Lennon gets a bluegrass makeover.
We have the pleasure of sharing with you ‘These Hours’, the latest song and video from Saskia Griffiths-Moore‘s forthcoming studio album, ‘Ocean of Stars’.
Diversions is the clearest statement of Leveret’s ability yet, an album packed with beautiful, gentle, energetic and fluid works, and it fully establishes this band as one of the very finest in English instrumental music.
Listen to the inspirational and fresh-sounding new single ‘Dance with Me’ from Kora Feder, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘In Sevens’, an honest and poetic testament to the modern age.
Tomorrow sees the release of Lunar Vortex Incantations, the new album from Edinburgh-based songwriter and fingerstyle folk guitarist Burnt Paw. Watch his new video for the beautifully atmospheric Fire Maidens.
The Route To The Harmonium is another outstanding instalment in Yorkston’s body of work, a finely-wrought and elegiac album shot through with moments of real innovation.
This Old River is built on the strengths of this duo with Tobias’s brilliant songs and his impassioned vocals delivering every nuance. Matching and elevating this is Lukas’s accompaniment – the whole album is beautiful, compassionate and astonishing.
Our Song of the Day is Cajsa’s Tears (the lost brides) from Jonathan Peter Day’s new album ‘a Spirit Library’ out now on Niimiika Records and also one of our Featured Albums of the Month.
Rolling Stone once declared Tom Russell to be “the greatest living folk-country songwriter”. October in the Railroad Earth offers no reason to disagree.
The Gloaming 3, sees the band take the step into the unknown with an even wider exploration of the possibilities that music presents… a bold, beguiling, magnificent album.
Amour is the first collaboration between Colin Linden and Luther Dickinson. A bittersweet Americana covers album featuring guest vocalists Rachael Davis, Ruby Amanfu, Billy Swan and Sam Palladio & Jonathan Jackson
