Mike Davies

On Mike Grogan’s ‘Too Many Ghosts’ he is joined by the likes of Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes. The message, like the music, is simple, direct and clear. And both all the more effective for it.

Whilst they’ve both made strong impressions with their solo work, a new partnership of TRADarrr founder members Marion Fleetwood and Gregg Cave may well prove their biggest yet.

Go Get Gone, the debut album from Rosie Jones and Zoe Nicol, known as the Worry Dolls, is sure to cement their reputation here and introduce them to America in a big way.

Raphael Doyle, a founding member of Café Society, returns to record a definitive album with the support of Tom Robinson, his son and Gerry Diver. A truly excellent piece of work from a man who finally found the self-confidence to believe in himself and the music he makes. We are all the richer for it.

Last year, Robert Vincent became the first recipient of the Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award for the UK Americana Music Association. On the evidence here, he’ll be needing more room in the trophy cabinet.

The Wide Afternoon is the third album from London-based singer and songwriter Jack Harris. Whilst previously compared to the likes of Jackson C Frank, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson and Martyn Joseph, this is very much his own voice. A sublime album by a sublime artist.

For her sixth studio album, Tift Merritt lays her cards on the tables from the outset with themes from childbirth to divorce. Joined by Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam for three numbers, ‘Stitch of the World’ proves to be a strong album.

Following the release of his sold out third album Dragon Tails, Phil Riley returns with Neil Mercer for Lost Legions, an album steeped in the sound of that much loved late 60s/early 70s folk sound.

Furnace, the sophomore solo album from newgrass outfit Trampled By Turtles frontman Dave Simonett, offers a collection of deeply personal and open-nerved songs couched in memorable, infectious melodies, delivered with an aching tenor and echoes of 60s country-rock.

For their latest album, husband and wife Americana duo The Grahams bring along some friends including Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Milk Carton Kids, John Fullbright, The Norman Sisters and both Cody and Luther Dickinson and many more. UK Tour February – March 2017.

On the title track of her new album Courtney Marie Andrews sings “some people take a little more time to grow”; after standing in the shadows of success playing with the likes of Damien Jurado, the time has come for her to be bathed in her own spotlight.

Stanley Brinks’ latest offering sees him teaming up with a stripped down two-piece version of the Norwegian folk collective The Kaniks – a double album that is immaculately played, unpolished and, for the most, jubilant in spirit and mood, it’s a gem of its kind.