Small Believer is the latest offering from Portland singer-songwriter Anna Tivel. She offers insightful and often moving images of ordinary lives drawn from stories heard while out on the road. Open, honest and deeply affecting, it’s her best work yet. 

London-based American folk legend Tom Paley has died, he was 89 years old. He performed with Woody Guthrie, was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers – he was also a huge influence on the British folk scene since moving here in 1965. A warm-hearted character loved by many.

John Smith’s Headlong is a restrained and affecting album from a master craftsman. What it lacks in happy hooks, it makes up for in slow-burn – these are songs to enjoy as they unfold over many listens.

Songs from the Attic is very much a personal journey by Hampshire-based musician and journalist Jon Wilks. His love for folk music manifests itself throughout this lovely album.

Our latest Folk Show featuring new music from Jon Boden, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Ye Vagabonds, Findlay Napier, Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock, Saz’iso, Laura Baird, Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp, Brigid Mae Power and more.

Afterglow is a full, large scale and grand piece of work that is as intelligent as it is entertaining, and it confirms Jon Boden as one of the most interesting and exciting British singers and arrangers currently working.

Next month, Vinyl180 will release two very special albums in their Topic Records Introduction series – A double LP Real Sound Of Folk Compilation and Shirley Collins – An Introduction To. We have copies to giveaway and a special discount offer for all Folk Radio UK readers.

We catch up with Damien O’Kane at FolkEast to talk about his music and his forthcoming new album Avenging & Bright. Plus we’ve some great news about his 2018 Summer tour with Ron Block (Alison Krauss band).

If you love the minimalist folk music of Cath and Phil Tyler, Shirley Collins, Lankum and Anna & Elizabeth then folk duo House and Land may well be right up your street. They are on tour in Europe in October 2017. Watch them perform The Day is Past and Gone, our Song of the Day.

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Woody Guthrie, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage have released a new single ‘Way Over Yonder in Minor Key’. The single is released ahead of their October Tour. Watch their new video here.

Strength and courage is what ‘Strangers’ is all about. Despite the hardships it describes, there is barely a moment on this album that doesn’t hum with positivity. The Young’uns have perfected a sound that is as unique as it is uplifting, and it would be no surprise if their already burgeoning popularity were to rise to even greater heights.

Watch the latest video from Holy Moly & The Crackers with their cover of the Cold War Kids song, ‘Hospital Beds’. The song will feature on the B-side of their new ‘Let Go’ single due to drop on October 6th via Pink Lane Records ahead of their November tour.