Trail West’s ‘From the Sea to the City’ takes you from the dance to sombre seriousness and the surge of deep and strong emotion with equal facility and success. Highly recommended.
The Willows are touring over the Autumn, to celebrate their widely anticipated 3rd album ‘Through The Wild’ due for release in November. Watch their video for False Light.
This week’s Folk Show features music from Tim Hart & Maddy Prior, Peter Bellamy, Anne Briggs, Hamish Napier, Siobhan Miller, Assynt, Trail West, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith and lots more.
A love found, lived and lost in eight songs, simply but beautifully crafted in its musical and emotional notes, it’s the album equivalent of a Richard Linklater or Woody Allen bittersweet romance.
It takes real skill and inspiration to make the new versions sound like that’s how they were always meant to be. The True Adventures of Independent Country have both in abundance.
Refreshingly contemporary in their approach, while staying true to their Highland influences; with Road To The North, Assynt have created a debut album that marks them as one of our most impressive young bands.
Watch the latest video from Somerset singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane for her new single ‘Man Friendship’ taken from her forthcoming stand-out debut album, ‘Namer Of Clouds’.
We catch up with Virginia-born brothers’ Sons of Bill (on tour in the UK now) to talk about their departure and return to the scene and explore their connection to southern American novelist William Faulkner and more.
Welsh traditional band Allan Yn Y Fan will be celebrating their 22nd year on the road with the release of their first single in September, followed by a major European tour in the Autumn.
Aleppo is an important and thought-provoking album. Yet this fact is amplified enormously when learning that every cent generated by sales of this and all previous releases goes to assist funding the efforts of Doctors Without Borders.
Next month sees the return of Songs for Walter with his new album ‘An Endless Summer Daze’ from which we have the pleasure of sharing his new single ‘Traitors’.
This collection of songs is an incredible testimony to a man who was at his strongest when he should have been at his weakest. Rest in Peace Jimmy LaFave.
