Mike Davies

Rock Island Grange is a highly energetic and hugely enjoyable album, even if you’re not a devotee of old-time American string band music, this offering from Foghorn Stringband hard to resist.

Jimmy Rankin’s latest offering, Moving East, is infused with a local Cape Breton flavour and is tinged with both joy and sadness, but it most definitely makes you want to put out the welcome mat.

Hallways is just the second EP from the young Ken Pomeroy who has already opened for Wanda Jackson. She has a bright future ahead of her.

Holler, the sixth solo album from Amy Holler of Indigo Girls is a love letter to her home, written with affection, but the ink sometimes run with tears. 

Modern Man is by far Benjamin Folke Thomas’s best album yet on which he balances honest confessional and sardonic wit like an expert tightrope walker.

Wild Hxmans finds Sweden’s answer to Tindersticks’ Stuart Staples and Nick Cave combined brooding on a world in transition, the X replacing the U in the title symbolic of the way we cross others out and ignore them.

As a producer, Hubbard has been attached to some of the finest Americana albums of the past decade, most recently Mary Gauthier’s Rifles and Rosary Beads. He can now add his own to that list.

Recorded in a break from touring with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters earlier this year, Seth Lakeman’s ‘The Well Worn Path’ is yet another stunning piece of work and, as ever, rooted in his native Dartmoor.

Folk Fever brings together folk music luminaries who have taken a collection of disco and dance floor classics and given them a folk makeover. An inspired album that, once again, proves that, in the hands of the right musicians,  a good song can transcend all musical borders.

Having relocated from her native New York seven years ago to take up residence in Cambridge, this is Annie Dressner’s first full-length collection to be recorded in the UK…”Shatteringly good.”

Named after a line from a  poem by Marj Ann Samyn, The Place That You Call Home is a new project by New Orleans singer-songwriter Kelcy Mae, produced by Neilson Hubbard and featuring a host of guest musicians including Will Kimbrough.

Four years on from his double Grammy nominated Terms of My Surrender, John Hiatt returns with an album that pares it down to basics, his best work since Crossing Muddy Waters back in 2000.