Eliza Carthy gives fans a rare treat with a podcast on which Eliza telling some of the stories behind her material and albums, and playing a selection of songs and tunes from her back catalogue.
This week on Simple Folk Radio David Thomas Broughton is in session! Broughton occupies a contentious position, divides opinion, unsettles, is self-consciously clumsy, hilarious, beautiful but above all memorable.
In this weeks Prog Corner Dirk Van Distanz has been transformed into a Disco Robot and it’s up to Bert Vertigo to keep things Progressive with the help of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and more.
Turner Cody has a new album out in May: ‘Last of the Big Time Spenders’….”For the first record of my thirties, I wanted to make something that spoke to adulthood and the changing times.” Watch his new video!
Seamus Fogarty has hastily put together this behind the scenes video documentary about the sad reality of life on the road with James Yorkston, Pictish Trail. Get their remaining English tour dates.
To Kill A King have just revealed the first video of a new series called ‘Ralph’s Singalong Sessions’ which features some well known artists that feature on Folk Radio UK. Watch it now!
Watch Canadian songwriter Matt Paxton’s new video for his song “Shore Pine Walk”. The project is a collaboration with Simeon Taylor of the Vancouver Institute of Art.
Folk Radio UK favourite Allysen Callery has revealed a demo of a new song titled Lily of the Valley which will appear on the new album she starts work on in May. Listen to it now, it’s beautiful as ever.
Monoganon are a progressive Glasgow based quartet who recently signed to Fence Records through whom they will release F A M I L Y in autumn 2013. Get a taster and watch the interview with frontman John B McKenna.
On this weeks Nest Collective Hour there is a very special live performance from the legendary Tom Paley: founding member of The New Lost City Ramblers, a man who has inspired many including Bob Dylan and Ry Cooder!
The Memory Band now in their tenth year release their fourth studio album On The Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs) next month & will celebrating with a live show at the Vortex in Dalston on 7th May.
Introducing The James Riley Band, their debut EP ‘Lay Me Down’ is out this month, you only need to watch the video for the title track to appreciate that they are going places! A name for 2013!
