Moondogs and Mad Dogs is the debut album from Donald Byron Wheatley, the cracked-voiced scion of a family of showmen and fairground people stretching back one hundred and fifty years.

With Further Tales, TRADarrr have generously delivered on the promise shown by their debut album. These new tales are the product of a band bursting with ideas. It truly is an album that gives more and more each time you listen.

With the upcoming release of his brilliant new album Peasant on 2nd June, Richard Dawson has shared a new song and video for ‘Soldier’. “I wrote them around the time of the EU referendum, so that’s in there, and it was also a period when I’d been on the road a lot and was missing my darling…”

WonderfulSound have share lead single for ‘Waiting Around’ from John Stammers aptly titled forthcoming album (30 July) which arrives ‘six years since the release of his 2011 debut.

English songwriter and former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman reveals new video for “Chantry, Somerset” from his forthcoming new album Thankful Villages Vol II, due out on 26 May via Rivertones.

Described as a new breed of country, pulling inspiration from dreamscapes and in-depth stories from the gorgeous and gritty corners of Americana, watch Jonathan Terrell’s latest video. He has just announced a run of UK festival dates in July 2017.

Days Are Done are Emmy Kay and Adam Lewis. Watch their new video for ‘You’, their latest single which was written, so they tell us, on a sunny day in Kingston-upon-Thames where the duo are now based.

Martin Simpson is to release his eagerly awaited new solo album entitled Trails and Tribulations on September 1st, via Topic Records. The album features a host of special guests plus we have an exclusive first listen to his cover of Jackson C. Frank’s ‘Blues Run The Game’.

Next month sees Stratford Arts House, in partnership with Riverside Campsite, celebrate their first Stratford Folk Festival which will be headlined by Folk legends Show of Hands and Cara Dillon.

Bill MacKay is a highly-regarded guitarist-composer-improviser based in Chicago, watch his latest video Powder Mill Park from his latest album Esker which is out now on Drag City Records.

There is no-one quite like Avital Raz in the world of music right now, and she should be applauded for the intelligence and singularity of her artistic vision. The Fallen Angel’s Unravelling Descent is a genuinely original musical statement, full of wise, exotic and gleefully mordant songs that manage to be simultaneously challenging and melodic.

Our Song of the Day is a premiere from Indiana-born-and-bred David Corley with ‘Down with the Universe’ from his new album Zero Moon spawned by a surreal experience of dying, on stage, and coming out of that, somehow alive but not unscathed. He’s on tour now.