Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones return with ‘About Time Too’, an extension of last year’s ‘About Time’ and very much cut from the same cloth. Throughout, it sounds like they’re playing for fun, nothing is too perfect or polished – one of the album’s key strengths. Lovely stuff.
PicaPica features the dual talents of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates accompanied by Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Spring & Shade is their new EP, a short but beautiful offering from two very talented singers who have no shortage of experience in creating dreamy harmonies.
This week sees the release of Snorri Helgason’s new album Margt býr í þokunni which has been four years in the making. The 10 songs which make up the album are all based on Icelandic folktales and traditional Icelandic folklore.
Chris Stapleton’s ‘From A Room: Volume 1’ has just recently walked away with the CMA Best Album award. Based on the strength of Volume 2, they might as well start engraving that 2018 Album of the Year award now.
Mancunian Americana band The Travelling Band have unveiled a vibrant and uplifting new video for their forthcoming single Mopping Forwards due for release just before Christmas on 22 December.
For her fifth studio album Cusp (out 9 Feb, AllPoints), Alela Diane taps into the nurture, strength and emotion of motherhood, a sentiment that travels movingly through the eye of a lens on her new video for Emigré, our Song of the Day.
Legendary singer-songwriter, Ralph McTell, has re-recorded his timeless song, ‘Streets of London’, with a choir made up of clients from Crisis – the national charity for homeless people – and guest vocalist Annie Lennox.
At a special performance at The White Room, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, Roberts Hall elected to perform their new album ‘2016’ in its entirety, in the round, with an expanded line-up. Our BC-based reviewer, David Morrison was there to witness it unfold.
Once again, this year, the team at Hands Up For Trad presented a magnificent event, celebrating the very best in Scots trad music from 2017. Neil McFadyen shares the highlights and winners from the evening.
Black Light Theatre is a guitar-driven, neo-psychedelic smorgasbord of sound and texture showcasing Jack Cheshire’s introspective songwriting, his solid Television-inspired guitar work and his band’s mastery of dynamics and tight musicianship.
This week’s Folk Show features new music from Melrose Quartet, Neil Young, Ross Ainslie, Band Of Burns, James Patrick Gavin, The Wailin’ Jennys and more.
John Oates announces new roots album ‘Arkansas’. A project which began as a tribute to Oates’ idol, the legendary American country blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt. For the album, he is joined by a strong stellar cast of musicians who go to make up The Good Road Band.
