On September 29, 2017, Chicago-based Big Sadie will release their debut album (UK release) on Spindle Tree Records. Watch their live video for “Need Your Love” which captures Big Sadie on a sunny day in mid-May in Chicago’s Humboldt Park.

Our Song of the Day comes from Cardiff-based band NoGood Boyo. Whilst at Lorient Interceltic Festival they recorded this at the reservoir where the acoustics lend atmosphere to the traditional Welsh love song Ym Mhontypridd Mae ‘Nghariad.

Steve Roud’s ‘Folk Song in England’ is a much-needed book, less about the song and more about the cultural life of those who sang them. He tackles the murky waters well as he investigates the wider social history of traditional song in England and he succeeds at furthering our understanding rather than hindering it. An essential and inspiring read.

One Nation Underground, the 1967 release from American psychedelic folk band Pearls Before Swine is to be reissued by Drag City Records using the original mono mix that made such an impact on its initial release.

On Stu Larsen’s Resolute, the ten songs float finely from the speakers, his voice an intimate postcard from abroad while the arrangements are nimble and sure footed, an attractive blend of confessional singer/songwriter and pop balladeer.

Bright Phoebus is a strange but wonderful beast of a record: a collection of entirely self-penned material from Lal & Mike Waterson who were previously known exclusively for performing traditional folk songs acapella via The Watersons. A splendid package that will restore the album to its rightful place in the permanent catalogue.

To celebrate their Golden Anniversary, Ian Anderson presents 50 years of Jethro Tull with eight UK concerts in April 2018 as part of a worldwide touring schedule.

We kick the week off with Midwestern alt-country stalwarts The Roseline and Maze of Glass, taken from their forthcoming album, Blood, due out October 6th.

Watch Eliza Carthy performing Worcester City, accompanied by David Delarre on guitar, recorded during the Barbican Centre Music Library’s Topic Records Exhibition earlier this year.

Our latest Folk Show features new music from Seamus Fogarty, Alice Howe, Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton, David Rawlings, Steel Sheep, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers and more.

Watch The Bara Bara Band’s new video for Plimsoll, an original arrangement of a broadside about the politician Plimsoll who, in the 1800s, canvassed for better safety on cargo ships where owners were sending sailors off to their deaths to cash in on insurance.

The Spirit Moves is the fifth album from the Nashville-based Sean Scolnick aka Langhorne Slim, originally released in 2015 the album is getting a UK reissue to coincide with his August tour.