Featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Linda Thompson, Alasdair Roberts and more – Released July 5th, all the money made from sales of Refugee go to the charity MOAS who have already saved 12,000 lives. Buying this album will help it save more.
Paradise of Bachelors have made available their Record Store Day Exclusive re-issue of Mike Cooper and Derek Hall’s ‘Out of the Shades’. A must for fans of Michael Chapman, Jackson C. Frank, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Wizz Jones, or Clive Palmer.
Heron Oblivion, fronted by the phenomenal Meg Baird, put in a superb session for the most excellent ground-breaking WFMU which also happens to be one of my favourites radio stations. Watch it here.
Eliza Carthy has announced ‘Big Machine’, her new album with her 12-piece Wayward Band, one of her most adventurous and accomplished works to date. Read more about the album here.
Rob catches a fantastic double-header event at Kenilworth Castle with multiple BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar and Will Pound & Eddy Jay, currently riding high on the back of their new album ‘Ignite’.
Following on from her recent EP, singer-songwriter Kelley McRae returns with ‘The Wayside’, an album shaped by a decision to forsake her NY apartment for a life on the road.
Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra latest album offers a cornucopia of western swing, country ballads, Tom Waitsian instrumentalism and cross-cultural Americana jambalaya goodness.
Watch a video premiere from Three Cane Whale featuring a live performance of Gurney’s Oak which was recorded live back in January 2016 at St George’s Bristol. Don’t miss their upcoming tour dates including Priddy Folk Festival and Sidmouth Folkweek.
Starless is a remarkable album that features no less than five of the country’s most talented Gaelic singers, former Blue Nile front man Paul Buchannan and the full musical might of The Prague Symphony Orchestra.
Eggs For Honey is taken from Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer’s new album Off-grid lo-fi, which, true to it’s name, was recorded in a secluded cabin in the San Juan islands, barely accessible by boat, surrounded by the only other inhabitants of the island – four donkeys.
Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick is set to release his new studio album Partners – a series of voice and piano recordings in which he experiments with chance, surrendering an entire song’s composition to the roll of dice.
