Listen to Sunday Song, an acoustic folk ballad and the new single from LA singer-songwriter James Houlahan off of his forthcoming LP The Wheel Still in Spin.
Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) announces new solo album True North – celebrating ten years since his seminal trip to study music in India, and all his many musical travels since. Listen to the first single Kalyan Variations.
A truly spectacular Festival event, DUST brings the culture and soul of American noir to the Edinburgh Fringe and showcases the music-making process…a stunning live performance piece.
Fans of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard won’t want to miss Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 which is out September 21 on Free Dirt Records. Listen to them performing This Little Light of Mine.
Glasgow’s award-winning multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his new project the Guitar Colloquium. The project came about in 2011 with a New Voices commission from Celtic Connections.
Flag-bearing American acoustic instrumentalist Glenn Jones’s The Giant who ate Himself is another perfectly realised and recorded set of solo gems. We caught up with him to discuss the album, the heavyweight twelve-string guitar and that one audience member.
Karl Culley’s ‘Last!’ is a double album and an acoustic affair, his complex but melodic guitar playing keeps the music rich and a suitable complement to his rather humble but enriching vocals and honest songwriting.
Chasing Ghosts is Philip Marino’s best yet, a 10-track collection of predominantly acoustic-based Americana that harks to such influences as John Mellencamp, Dylan, Cat Stevens and Neil Young. Seek him out.
Peter Walker is Joined in a mighty super-session with Harmony Rockets (Mercury Rev), Martin Keith, Nels Cline (Wilco), and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), that could only have coalesced around the wool sweaters, warm teacups and moldering bookstores of “Old Old Woodstock”…
Anamnesis is Ethan Johns’ first album since 2015’s ‘Silver Liner’ – where classic British folk meets the sound of wandering American troubadours with a healthy dose of inspiration from the unknown.
Watch the latest video from Trent Miller for Moonlight Cafe from his latest album Time Between Us. Tent Miller plays Mid Sussex Americana & Ale Festival in Hassocks Sat 11th August together with Bennett Wilson Poole, Jason McNiff and more.
Featuring Christian Sedelmyer and Rachel Baiman, 10 String Symphony’s latest album finds them pushing the musical boundaries of their instrumentation with Kris Drever on production.
