We have an interesting and amusing chat with Holy Moly & The Crackers about their new album Salem due out on July 14th. Plus, watch their latest video for their anthemic new single ‘Mary’.
On Goths, the new instrumental background offers a way to hear the Mountain Goats afresh. It is an album about impermanence, the return to places, people, and songs, and knowing them again after the passing of time. Listen to the album in full.
Watch ‘Walking Where No Man Will Ever Tread’, the debut single from The Lion’s Tail, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer Luc Deutschmann. Epic Americana folk with a strong scent of the Scandinavian Highlands.
We talk to Lisa Knapp about her latest album Till April Is Dead – A Garland Of May and talk in-depth about the rituals celebrated in May and why it has always held such power over the imaginations of singers and writers.
At the end of the Scott Cook’s booklet for ‘Further Down the Line’ there is a preamble memoir in which he quotes Bruce Cockburn “Kick at the darkness ‘till it bleeds daylight.” This album kicks hard.
Officially released on Sunday 11 June 2017 Painted is the Conservatoire Folk Ensemble’s first full studio album. Listen to album opener, Banish Misfortune / Poll Ha’penny. Don’t miss their tour dates.
Solomon, the fifth album from Welsh group Calan, is an amazing album, it sounds wonderful, fresh and exciting from the very first listen and continues to enthral on every subsequent visit. Don’t hesitate in buying a copy.
London-based songwriter Jason McNiff shares a new live video for Hat which was filmed by Trevor Moss. “I think this video has brought out a new dimension in the song that I didn’t know was there.”
Roving Crows’ Bury Me Naked presents a kaleidoscopic view into the past, the present and the future, in a glorious musical setting which is broad in diversity, rich in sound and high in energy.
Jason Eady’s self-titled release is still very much Texas red dirt country, but more stripped back than his last two offerings, a rootsy approach that puts the spotlight on the writing and where influences such as Guy Clark, John Prine, Steve Earle and Merle Haggard shine through.
Watch ‘We Are Good’, the new video from Betty Kendrick (from her new EP ‘Imposter’), a singer-songwriter from the North West of England with a hauntingly memorable sound. It’s also our Song of the Day.
In an exciting Festival first, Jon Boden takes the role of Guest Curator of Cambridge Folk Festival 2017. He reveals the stories behind his choices for the festival including LAU, Furrow Collective, Chris T-T, Kate in the Kettle and Martin Simpson.
