Real World Records release ‘Fatteliku Live’, Youssou N’Dour and his band’s live set supporting Peter Gabriel on the landmark ‘So’ tour, recorded in Athens in 1987 and making its long-awaited debut as an audio release.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. He heads over the sea in a force 6 to Rhum for the perhaps the most essential launch gig of the tour.

The Ballads of Child Migration is an album of brand new songs from some of Britain’s finest folk musicians inspired by these heart breaking true stories and coincides with a new exhibition taking place at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood.

I’m Walkin’ Here is the latest gem from Rab Noakes, featuring new songs, lovingly described as 21st Century skiffle, as well as songs he’s collected for interpretation. Rab is joined by a a great lineup including a stellar array of singers with Roddy Hart, Emma Pollock, Jimmie Macgregor, Barbara Dickson and more.

On the latest video from Stealing Sheep for Apparition they head into the British Countryside for a spot of Morris dancing. It’s a beautiful video also featuring some other folkloric appearances.

Michael Chapman’s latest release ‘Fish’ is a beautifully constructed album. It’s a delightfully un-sanitised recording of a master guitarist completely at ease with his playing.

Our Song of the Day is the debut single from Jiggy. ‘Laethanta Saoire’ is a tune that was composed in the 90s by the legendary guitarist Steve Cooney. Although the band have played it many times it has never been recorded or released… until now that is!

Vancouver-based band The Sumner Brothers return with their fifth album, The Hell In Your Mind. A musically and lyrically dark and dense affair that, if not quite in the 16 Horsepower league of intensity, is still a raw and exposed nerve.

Iain Morrison has unveiled his new video for Eas, the title track of his latest album. It was filmed in Taobh a Chaolais, South Uist, Iain also hails from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.

Richard Hawley unveils new video for ‘I Still Want You’, the second single from his latest album ‘Hollow Meadows’, a song which sees him at his most recognisably vulnerable and romantic. On October 22nd Hawley will undertake a 15-date tour of the UK and Ireland.

Blues Run the Game is a new film by producer and director Damien Dupont about the life the cult American folk troubadour Jackson C. Frank. It features interviews with the likes of Wizz Jones and the late John Renbourn. Watch a clip here.

Brown has been quoted as saying he’s searching for a new way to say the same things. Whether he’s succeeding or not is somewhat irrelevant given the quality and beauty of the songs on Slow Light, which must be considered a candidate for those end-of-year ‘best of’ lists. Make sure it’s on yours.