Jenn Butterworth and Laura-Beth Salter showcase their perfectly blended voices and tasteful and harmonious arrangements of the guitar and mandolin on their latest album Bound.
Welsh guitarist Toby Hay is currently on tour following the release of this debut album ‘The Gathering’. So what does he listen to while on the road? Check his ‘On the Road’ playlist featuring the likes of Karen Dalton, The Gloaming and more.
Listen to Bang Bang, the new single from two-time Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee, Sarah Jane Scouten taken from her new full-length album When The Bloom Falls From The Rose, due for release on June 16th via Light Organ Records.
Skerryvore are excited to announce the introduction of a new member to their musician lineup. Scott Wood will join the band, playing pipes and whistles. His first on-stage appearances will be next month.
Formed around husband and wife vocalists Enion Pelta-Tiller and David Tiller, Taarka’s music is a rootsy masala – the band’s name apparently comes from a term for the Indian spices roasted until they pop. The flavours are decidedly moreish.
For those that missed it, ace guitarist Michael Chapman performed on Later… with Jools Holland on 18th April 2017. Watch him performing Sometimes You Just Drive which features on his latest album 50.
When she wasn’t cutting hair she was cutting tracks with music industry buddies Lee Hazlewood and Jack Nitzsche who were wowed by her deep, sultry voice and brilliant songwriting. Lynn’s songs have remained mostly unreleased and unknown, until now courtesy of LIGHT IN THE ATTIC.
FOLLOW THE SUN (mid May on Anthology) collects outsider pop, folk and psych from Australia in the 1960s and 70s. Check out Mata Hari’s ‘Easy’ and Megan Sue Hicks for a flavour.
Introducing: folk singer Sergio Beercock who is about to embark on his debut UK tour. Although born in Hull he moved to Sicily, Italy as a child where he recently released his debut album Wollow. Watch the video for his lead single ‘Battle for Attention’.
“We gathered a host of musicians and writers, artists and scholars, weirdos and generally adventurous people to set the James Joyce’s bizarre novel, Finnegans Wake, to music.” We talk to Derek Pyle, the Project Director and give you a unique first listen of several tracks from the new release.
Listen to One and Only, a new song from Boston-based folk singer-songwriter Avi Jacob, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Surrender’. The new EP was produced by Simone Felice and features members of the Felice Brothers playing on it.
If Chicago-based singer-songwriter Tyler Sjöström is an unfamiliar name to you then I will bet money this will change on the release of his new EP Bones, Hold Me Up from which we take our Song of the Day with lead single Holding On.
