Over six years after his self-released lost classic debut, My Lovely Son returns with an album documenting a period of both apprehension and hope at a crossroads in the musician’s life. “Despite the pain of its creation, I can assure Minhas that the end result was well, well worth it. “
Listen to Gerridae by Welsh Bajan singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford. The song is taken from her forthcoming double A-side single on Folkstock Records. She’s made quite an impression and will soon feature as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Read our in-depth interview with Billy Bragg about his forthcoming new album ‘Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad’ on which he re-partners with producer and musician Joe Henry.
This is an extraordinary album: exceedingly hypnotic and strongly individual, while at the same time intensely moving, elemental and Powerful. It’s proved all too easy to fall under its spell, and I’m hooked for good, with the disc on pretty constant replay.
Lorcán Mac Mathúna’s latest album, Visionaries 1916, which is due to be released in October, honours the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising through a creative musical use of their words.
Saturday 3rd September sees the return of the London Folk Festival to Camden’s Cecil Sharp House featuring Faustus, Stick In The Wheel, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater, Long Lankin and more.
Much like the album’s title the songs on Emily Jane White’s latest offering share a special musical and dramatic unity, whose intimacy is sometimes quite overpowering in spite of its pervasive sense of distance and shadowy remove.
Instar finds Nancy Kerr at the height of her creative powers. It’s vital, visceral and urgent – balm for our woes, hope for our future: an essential companion for these turbulent times.
Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood collaborate on ‘Wings’ EP which, as well as original and traditional material, includes covers of Lau’s ‘Ghosts’ and New Order’s ‘Love Vigilantes’. Don’t miss their London live debut on 25th August.
Our Song of the Day comes from the Dublin-based Irish Traditional trio The Morning Tree. They perform a beautiful version of The Holland Handkerchief – a tale of love beyond the grave.
Our Song of the Day comes via a video of Lau and Anais Mitchell performing ‘Dyin’ Day’ which featured on her 2012 album ‘Young Man in America’, an album inspired by the recession and the uncertainty that it brought with it.
