Mike Davies

San Diego-based quartet Sister Speak deliver an impressive debut that with the right exposure, should firmly establish them as a fresh new name on the alt-roots circuit.

Formerly part of the Texas all-girl outfit The Trishas, Kelley Mickwee makes an impressive launch on her own path with ‘You Used To Live Here’.

Adam Cohen, son of Leonard, releases his fifth album just a couple of weeks before his father’s. But whatever living ghosts may haunt it, this is very much an album by Cohen Jr, not Cohen Sr.

Yet another outstanding album from Meuross, who sings with conviction, understated power and gentle passion and should, by rights, be far better known and celebrated than he is.

Break & Bloom is the debut solo album from Jane Kramer. An album which shows no shortage of fertile ground upon which she will definitely bloom.

With Beth Nielsen Chapman picking them as her backing band and support act for a UK tour, Red Sky July’s second album seems destined already to do well.

Catherine MacLellan’s past albums have seen her compared to Joni, the young Emmylou and Gillian Welch, but on ‘The Raven’s Sun’ she has truly found a voice of her own.

Yorick Cormack, erstwhile principal songwriter with Glasgow’s Endrick Brothers releases his solo album under the guise of ‘First Charge of the Light Brigade’.

To mark his 50th anniversary as a working musician Chris Smither revisits two dozen of his songs on his latest double CD, guests include Loudon Wainwright III & Kris Delmhorst.

On his latest album ‘Atlantic’ County Antrim singer-songwriter Ben Glover once again raises the bar, not just for his own career, but for everyone in the Americana musical panorama.

Celebrating their tenth anniversary New York harmony trio Red Molly release ‘The Red Album’, the first to put the emphasis on their self-penned material.

After a busy five years of touring with Portland-based band Blind Pilot, Kati Claborn was sitting on a steadily growing pile of tunes…Hook and Anchor brings them to light.