Compass Records Group has acquired Folk Roots label Red House Records – The 34-year-old St Paul, MN-based imprint is an iconic brand in Americana and folk music and has been home to a long list of cornerstone artists of the genre, including The Wailin’ Jennys, Eliza Gilkyson, Greg Brown and more.
Dutch folk duo Rosemary and Garlic who we first reviewed back in 2015 have signed to Nettwerk through whom they will release their self-titled debut studio album on 12th January 2018. Listen to their lead single ‘Take this Hand’.
From now and into the New Year there are some great Folk and Americana acts lined up at London’s Kings Place including Talisk, Melrose Quartet, Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Julie Fowlis, Lúnasa and The Albion Christmas Band.
In support of his new release ‘Gathering’, Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band will kick off an extensive tour this winter, including a date at London’s Shepherd Bush Empire for which we have a great Giveaway.
Tom Waits and longtime songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan are to remix his 2004 groundbreaking album ‘Real Gone’ which will have a sound and texture originally envisioned by the artist.
Billy Bragg has shared a new lyric video for his poignant Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted which features on his new mini-album Bridges Not Walls released earlier this month on Cooking Vinyl.
Ahead of a UK run of dates in February 2018, including Celtic Connections and London’s Bush Hall, Young Mary’s Records/Thirty Tigers are to release Colter Wall’s Imaginary Appalachia on January 19th on Vinyl and CD. We can’t recommend it enough.
Our Song of the Day comes via a new video for The Gulley from that inventive folk duo India Electric Co. It opens their new EP, Seven Sisters which is not only their folkiest release to date but also a superb showcase of the duo’s talents which has them at their most inventive. Their best yet.
Jim James, the frontman for My Morning Jacket, has shared his cover of jazz singer Abbey Lincoln’s “The World Is Falling Down” which features on his forthcoming new covers album Tribute To 2, due Out December 8 via ATO.
The Celtic Connections festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2018. In true Celtic Connections style the festival will feature an ambitious and eclectic line-up of musicians from all corners of the world who have been invited to take to the Glasgow stage early next year.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier will release her most important work to date with Rifles & Rosary Beads. The album reveals the untold stories and powerful struggles that war veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.
Shetland fiddler Chris Stout and harpist extraordinaire Catriona McKay return with a new duo album Bare Knuckle from which we take our Tune of the Day. Watch them performing Louise’s Waltz, recorded live in a cottage in Cellardyke, Scotland.
