Mike Davies

Whilst this album may seem like the vindicating culmination of the journey he’s been on, it’s actually just the start of what promises to be a very exciting and significant new arrival on the Americana scene.

Dave Rawlings has finally found time to schedule a follow-up to the 2009 Dave Rawlings Machine debut. Nashville Obsolete has been worth the wait with a stunning final track that is the album’s lynchpin.

Birmingham based trio Millbrook release their self-titled debut album next month, a very accomplished album that is sure to stand them in good stead for a very promising future.

Now 76 and with a voice that still sounds as clear and pure as it did in 1976 when she first sang ‘Both Sides Now’, Judy Collins’ latest offering features a cast of collaborators including the likes of Glen Hansard and Bhi Bhiman who step up to join her in song.

Two Universes is the latest offering from Feufollet , a young five piece band hailing from Southwest Louisiana playing a lively gumbo of Cajun, honky-tonk, classic country, rock and pop.

Both haunting and moody, Alex Roberts sixth album, The Daemon & The Eidolon, illustrates why he’s held in such esteem. It also underscores his immersion in the sound of traditional English folk-blues and prime influences of John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and almost certainly John Martyn.

Chantal Acda’s latest offering ‘The Sparkle in our Flaws’ is ethereal, full of swirling passions and whispered longings, an intoxicating, calming and beguiling journey through the beauty of our imperfections.

The press release for Patty Griffin’s new album talks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rumi and Rilke, but you don’t have to have a grounding in American transcendentalism or Eastern or German romantic mysticism to have your heart beat along with hers.

Named after a Sheffield landmark, Richard Hawley’s eighth studio album, Hollow Meadows, finds one of Britain’s greatest songwriters in good company, including Martin Simpson, Jarvis Cocker and Nancy Kerr for one of his finest albums yet.

There’s been a revival of interest in old school soul over the last couple of years, and with this latest offering from Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats it should see them surfing to the top of the wave.

Classically-trained Nevada native Sunny Ozell releases her debut album ‘Take It With Me’ – a smoky cocktail of jazz, blues and American roots that reveals a sweet but sassy vocal and a good ear for arrangements and classy tunes.

Tom Blackwell hails from the North of England, after a series of demo releases Tyrone The Gun is his debut proper and, according to Mike, it’s easily one of the best things he’s heard all year.