Mike Davies

Boho Dancer reissue their debut album Gemini as a special edition. Mike explores the new offering which includes three new tracks from the Danish trio.

Dan Lyth’s album conjures what might result from a cross-fertilisation of Radiohead and The Fence Collective, an ambitious, intellectual, art-music project, but with a real beating heart at its core.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Bridie Jackson and The Arbour return – drawing on English folk traditions and Eastern European colours their sophomore album ‘New Skin’ is stunning.

Harpeth Rising take their name from the fast flowing, powerful tributary of Tennessee’s Cumberland River. Like that, their latest album is in full flood.

Island Records resurrect their classic 60s pink label for The Rails, daughter and son-in-law of folk music legends Richard & Linda Thompson, footsteps they are highly likely to follow.

Unfussy and honest in their approach to the music, Tumbling Bones are not looking to reinvent Americana’s old time roots…only the very best do it with the same verve and passion as these boys.

Mike compares singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook’s sophomore album ‘Brightly Painted One ‘ to lying in an English meadow on a warm, summer day…what’s not to like?

For their eponymous new album the Smoke Fairies reinvent their sound in a goblinesque fusion of English folk and deep ellum blues embracing electronics and pop-influenced atmospherics.

I’d not come across Barber before this release, but, twangy, aching, honest and just the right amount of grit, I’m definitely making him my Prairie home companion.

Willie Campbell, former frontman of Astrid, releases a solo album of original Gaelic songs, both a celebration of cultural heritage and a damn good collection of guitar driven folk rock.

With 40 years of music making under his belt Rodney Crowell returns with his first solo album in six years. Read Mike’s review of ‘Tarpaper Sky’…”An album of the year, no question”.

Mike Davies reviews Louisiana husband wife duo Truckstop Honeymoon’s latest offering and stamps a big seal of approval: By far the freshest ‘new’ discovery of my year so far.