Iron & Wine announces new EP “Weed Garden” due August 31st via Sub Pop and shares lead track What Hurts Worse. It serves as the perfect companion piece to last years full length.
Check out this darker cover of the Rolling Stones ‘It’s All Over Now’ by five-piece band Ransom Pier who hail from Queens, New York. Hayley Harrington’s jazzy vocals nail it.
Claude Martin was a young and talented fiddle player who had been performing traditional old-time fiddle music in the Washington DC area for over 20 years. This album both serves as a showcase for a gifted musician and a memorial for a young life taken far too soon.
Jason McNiff’s been gathering increasing acclaim since he made his debut and it’s long overdue for that to be matched by greater commercial success. With the label behind him, Joy and Independence might just be the one to crack the ceiling.
Cherry-picked from two decades of output, this is a varied collection of consistently high quality. Listeners hankering for an echo of that sly Mr Fox (genuinely weird and wonderful) will find delight in the 70s composition, Fiddler’s Cross.
There’s a quiet, easy charm about Alden Patterson & Dashwood’s distinctive little musical niche, yet its very simplicity of execution is deceptive, for it can conceal an inventiveness and sense of challenge that I find every bit as beguiling.
I guess that the song ‘Echoes’ is about the pain of letting go of a relationship that isn’t working. The lyrics were still forming when I came to the session, and that gives the performance a bit more immediacy and spontaneity than a song that has settled.
A magnificent celebration of the achievements of Fellside Recordings, a marvellous collection of life-affirming music that (together with its predecessor-companion issues) richly deserves a place on your “dip into often” shelves.
Folk Show Episode 31 features: Damien O’Kane & Ron Block, Pokey LaFarge, Laura Gibson, Gillian Welch, Blaze Foley, Black Twig Pickers, Kaia Kater, Valerie June, Letitia VanSant, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Jackson C Frank and more.
On Banjophony, there’s a connectivity among the musicians that goes far beyond simply sharing a melody; it’s an exchange of ideas and influences and a platform to explore them. O’Kane and Block have taken a collective approach to create an album of incredibly captivating music.
Featuring Jenny Sturgeon, Inge Thomson, Jason Singh, Sarah Hayes and Magnus Robb and The Sound Approach, watch the video for Northern Flyway’s ‘Curlew’ taken from their forthcoming album on Hudson Records.
