Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
We head back to the Embankment, Tallaght, Co.Dublin 1976 for today’s Song of the Day, a great horse-racing classic – ‘Plains of Kildare’. It’s performed by Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and Dónal Lunny.
This week’s mix features a heap of new music from the likes of Brigid Mae Power, Martin Green (ft. Adam Holmes), Seth Lakeman And Wildwood Kin, Ruth Keggin, Aon Teanga, Georgia Ruth, Billy Bragg And Joe Henry and many more.
Watch the new video from Marina Florance for Two People, her new single. Simple in concept, with still-photos of people of all ages dancing, the video provides a welcome dose of nostalgia and draws you in with it’s universally appealing theme.
Husband and wife duo The Handsome Family share new video for Gold, their latest single from their forthcoming 10th studio album Unseen, due for release on 16 September via Loose.
Our Song of the Day comes via Irish singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power with It’s Clearing Now. We also have a lovely home-recording video of her performing ‘As I Roved Out’, a song that I’ve long associated with Andy Irvine. Don’t miss her UK Tour Dates.
Undercurrent is a fine, thoughtful collection of songs, beautifully performed by Sarah Jarosz and her musical partners and showcasing a supremely gifted and still relatively unknown artist maturing into her prime.
Watch Andrew Bird performing alongside John C. Reilly and Tom Brosseau. Mixing the old with the new they perform an old traditional song from The Carter Family repertoire and a track from his ‘Are You Serious’ album.
Mathias Kom, along with his band The Burning Hell deliver an album that is easily their best to date. One that proves there is more to this anarchic, self-consciously verbose band than jokes. Public Library is an album of surprising emotional depth and musical variety.
Tompkins Square announce the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem compiled by hardcore record collectors Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice. It features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard.
Watch a new video from Peter Doran and Brian Murphy for Blackberry Wine, the fruits of a new joint project that also provides our Song of the Day. The song was inspired by a book about the life of Billie Holiday.
For their latest album Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer literally go off-grid – holed up on a sparsely populated island in the San Juan archipelago. An intimate recording and ultimately a brave one as this pared down delight see-saws between delicate picking and grizzled fuzz.
