“I’ll Be Yours” is a lively, well-produced album, featuring the diverse styles this band brings to the table. They draw from the great American tradition – Solid songwriting and top-notch musicianship should get The Americans some much-deserved attention.
MUTE unveil new video for CAN’s Vitamin C. Also, to celebrate the release of CAN – The Singles, they have put together The Story Of Can, illustrating the breadth of their incredible legacy through sampling, remixes and cover versions.
Martin Simpson shares a new video in which he talks about his new album Trails & Tribulations which will be released on September 1st, 2017 via Topic Records. He also reveals why this album sounds so different to what he’s done before.
In a special two-part series David Morrison shares his highlights of this year’s Campbell Bay Music Festival on Mayne Island, British Columbia. Day One includes Fish & Bird, Roger Roger, The Revelers, Top Men, Distant Grand and more.
Ontario-based singer/songwriter Matt Paxton recorded his new EP ‘Hunter Street Station Blues’ in early Spring of 2017 when he reveals he “was indeed hauling a heavy heart…” Listen to the first track ‘Baby Don’t Go’ – about holding on to love and trying to make it all work.
“Songs have very curious existences… they live lives of their own outside and beyond us”. So says American kind-of-folklorist Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose new long player is crafted from history and musical posterity. We got him started on his focus and listened in.
Dellar plays with many styles on this impressive album and the picking is so beautifully human throughout that it feels like an antithesis to many of the click-track recorded sessions we hear.
Home Gathering festival has a great lineup this year including many FRUK favourites: Lisa Knapp, Beth Orton, Julie Murphy, Daoiri Farrell, Chris Wood & more plus an exclusive performance of The Bairns by Rachel Unthank & The Winterset.
Underhill Rose deliver a live album of their Appalachian-flavoured folk music that’s sure to be in popular demand following their recent tour of the UK & Ireland.
Likened equally to The Travelling Willburys, George Harrison, the Band and Jerry Garcia, Sideways Rain is a 13-track collection of American folk-tinted pop.
Johnny finds himself at Oban Live for 2017 and shares some his highlights of the weekend including Trail West, Skipinnish, Tide Lines and of course, Skerryvore.
On Play One More Tom Russell celebrates the songs of Ian & Sylvia Tyson, the Canadian folk duo who were there at the start of the Greenwich Village folk boom and who also were early starters in the country rock stakes in the early seventies.
