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Paley and Son is the new album from Tom Paley on which he is joined by fiddle playing son Ben and special guests Cerys Matthews, BJ Cole and harmonica player Rob Mason. Watch this new video interview in which they talk about the new album.

Seckou Keita’s latest album ’22 Strings’ is his first ever solo album and in this new video interview he provides a valuable insight into the album including the significance of the songs and his kora playing.

Our Song of the Day comes by way of a new video from the gorgeously quirky Sound of Yell which is led by Stevie Jones. The track Crescent features on the debut album Brocken Spectre.

Tyburnia is a live soundtrack by the Dead Rat Orchestra to a film by James Holcombe which is on tour now. It takes its name from Tyburn which was a public execution site in London for over 700 years. Here those who fell foul of political, religious and judicial reforms enacted by the state were executed for public entertainment and instruction. In our first Guest Blog feature we hear from …

Richard Thompson has shared “All Buttoned Up”, a new track from his forthcoming new album Still, due for release June 23rd, 2015 via Fantasy Records (Concord Music Group). Listen to it here.

Our Song of the Day comes by way of a debut music video for Kabembe, taken from Irish-based Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu’s forthcoming new album due out in August. We’ll be bringing you more on this album soon, in the meantime enjoy his band RiZA.

Tinariwen kick off their UK Tour today at Brighton’s Concorde 2 and will also take in Hay Festival, Lauland at Bristol’s Colston Hall, Lunar Festival and Tinariwen in the Woods which is being organised by the good folk at Smugglers Records. Stream their acoustic EP Inside:Outside in full here.

Jonathan Day is currently touring, pre-viewing his new album Atlantic Drifter, to be released by Proper in September this year from which you can watch his new video for ‘Sea Full of BIrds,’ our Song of the Day.

To mark the recent release of their self-titled album, (New York, NY) Nashville-based, heartland rock band, Midnight Pilot reveal their exclusive new video session for Give Me What You Gave to Him.

The legendary Chip Taylor, the singer-songwriter responsible for penning both ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Angel Of The Morning,’ announces a number of UK dates in support of his Little Prayers Trilogy triple album released in January on Train Wreck records.

Ceri Rhys Matthews of Welsh band Fernhill is running a musicians retreat this coming Monday. All in the splendid isolation of a fifteenth century gatehouse in the magical rural setting of the Preseli hills, West Wales.

We have a great video premiere today from Rag Foundation who hail from South Wales. Keep the Lights Low is taken from their forthcoming album, The Sparrow and The Thief – a folk tinged collection of tales that they’re keen for listeners to explore.