Nick Jonah Davis’s ‘House of Dragon’ scores deservedly high with Folk Radio UK. “I doubt if I will come across a better album this year if I ever do it will be a considerable piece of work.”
Ryan Adams called her “a phenomenal songwriter”, now you can find out why. Listen to “How Quickly Your Heart Mends”, the new single from Courtney Marie Andrews and taken from her forthcoming album “Honest Life”.
Wolves A-Howlin’ sees talented young fiddle player Kieran Towers join forces with Charlotte Carrivick (banjo/guitar/mandolin) on a collection of old-time fiddle tunes. The young duo delivers an uncompromising and impressive performance on their first recording together.
We head off to Purbeck Valley Folk Festival tomorrow for another great Bank Holiday weekend. Highlights include Villagers, Eliza Carthy’s Wayward Band, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman and many more. Come and join us!
Comrad is a Connecticut-based folk, singer-songwriter. “1000 Lives” is the third song from Comrad’s upcoming EP, 10 Feet Away, slated for release September 2016.
Johnny shares some of his highlights and interviews from this year’s Wickham Festival including Blazin’ Fiddles, Mawkin, Skerryvore, Saltfishforty, Mischa Macpherson Trio, Lynched, Ewan McLennan and more.
We have a track premiere from two-time Juno award-winning Canadian Americana singer-songwriter Jenny Whiteley. 100 Dollars is from her new record The Original Jenny Whiteley, which releases on September 16, 2016.
Our Song of the Day is from folk singer-songwriter Rob Richings. Watch the video premiere for ‘Ten Seconds’, a song written when he was very ill, inspired by the first ten seconds of the day when everything is okay, before reality kicks in.
Symbiosis sees Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton bring their musical intuition and unity to the studio in a collection of tune sets that expertly brings their combined skills as composers, multi-instrumentalists, and arrangers to an eager audience.
The Golden Hum featured the transcendent vocal and sparse instrumentation of Brigid Mae Power, Gareth Dickson’s graceful songs and mesmerising finger-picked guitar; and event organiser Constant Follower’s début live performance.
Our Tune of the Day is from Paul James who many of you will know as a member of Blowzabella. Wakeful is from his forthcoming new album The Drowned Lover & Other Dark Tales which is due for release in September 2016.
Watch the new video for ‘A Love so Contagious’ from Jeff Finlin, taken from his just released new book of poetry entitled ‘The Seduction Of Radha’…a kind of modern-day American Rumi-ism.
