Harpist and singer Rachel Newton has announced her biggest tour to date under her own name. Her latest album has also been long listed as one of 20 Outstanding Albums in the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award 2017.
Regardless of any societal constraints Molly Drake may have felt in her life, regardless of her unwillingness to publish her own material, she was a consummately gifted songwriter. And in The Unthanks, those songs have found their perfect outlet.
Our Song of the Day comes from Zephaniah O’Hora, a leading light of New York’s burgeoning roots country scene. Listen to Way Down In My Soul”, taken from his forthcoming debut album ‘This Highway’.
Though little known outside their native Canada and parts of Europe, The Road Ahead is Golden is Jon & Roys 7th album which finds them exploring areas outside their comfort zone, a very worthy listen.
Watch ‘Star of The South’, the new video from New Orleans indie rock band Motel Radio and the opening track from their sophomore release Desert Surf Films.
Bright Phoebus, Lal and Mike Waterson’s 1972 folk-noir masterpiece is to be reissued. Under the supervision of David Suff (Topic/Fledging) and Marry Waterson (daughter of Lal), the album has been remastered from the original tapes.
Breda Mayock has the same ability to wrap her vocal around her own poetry that makes listening to Joni Mitchell such a compelling experience. A collection of intimate, absorbing vocal performances perfectly framed in compelling arrangements.
Circe’s Diner, aka Rosina Buck and Bronte Shande, provide us with our Song of the Day via their new single ‘Who Dares’ – An uplifting track about being brave, despite all the sorrows of life that can make us dysfunctional.
Luke Sital-Singh’s ‘Time is a Riddle’ is more of a rebirth than a follow-up, awash with emotion and tumultuous cathedrals of sound. A captivating experience that’s hard to resist falling for.
I first heard this Skipinnish line-up last year at Oban Live and was bowled over both by the music and the almost ecstatic reaction it produced in the audience. The Seventh Wave comes about as close as any studio album could to replicating this feeling.
July 28th sees the release of this lavish Fairport Convention CD box set, Come All Ye – The First 10 Years. Beginning with their eponymous debut for Polydor in 1968, through to 1978. It features 55 previously unreleased tracks.
Edens’ Appalachian roots are the glue of Stripped Down Gussied Up, an album that teeters between sonic extremes, between Edens’ present and sepia past. Listen to Sirens.
