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Simon Holland

Acoustic Classics is what it claims: a collection 14 tracks culled from Richard Thompson’s 40 plus year career. These all new acoustic recordings will keep even the devoted fans happy.

Gramercy Arms are back with The Seasons Of Love, a stunning collection of Dave Derby power poppers featuring an impressive guest list including Lloyd Cole, Joan Wasser and Tanya Donnelly.

With two superb solo albums and one fronting the Albion Band recorded in a little over two years, Blair Dunlop has been very busy. We grabbed a few minutes for an exclusive catch up.

Ten Years was originally only available at Emily Smith’s live shows, but this excellent collection now has a full release (Out Today) and offers a great insight into her outstanding decade in folk.

With their fifth full length album, Revival, Bellowhead have made a match for the sheer joy and excitement of their live shows and their best record yet, a stone-wall classic.

Joan Osborne’s new album Love And Hate documents the rainbow hues of the complex human emotions woven into affairs of the heart. With Jack Petruzzelli on board again, it’s stunning.

John Fullbright brings a whole new meaning to John The Revelator as your correspondent is blown away by his appearance at Islington Assembly Hall.

The album launch for Blue Rose Code’s The Ballads Of Peckham Rye finds Ross Wilson backed by some of the key players on the record and a couple of special guest for another superb show.

Read our live review a superb performance from British Folk Music legends Martin and Eliza Carthy at Queen Elizabeth Hall touring their new album – with special guests including Nick Drake’s sister.

Jack McNeill gives FRUK an exclusive insight into the increasingly busy lives of McNeill & Heys and the writing and recording of their wonderful new album, Any Other Morning.

Having launched their wonderful Constellations album this week, Moulettes Hannah and Oliver took time out to give FRUK an exclusive insight into their unique sound and what makes them tick.

There are some rare records where the title tells you the story as eloquently as a thousand words. Mary Gauthier’s Trouble & Love may well be one of these, but just in case, read on…

Despite its title, The Devil Makes Three finds Catriona Price and Esther Swift in heavenly harmony as Twelfth Day serve up an album of stunning vocal and instrumental skill.

David Eagle talks to FRUK about The Young’uns appearance at Glastonbury. Plus we have a new video from them – Jack Ironside is a song originally written by the late Graeme Miles.

With Pledge Music and a change of label, McNeill & Heys have created Any Other Morning, a beautiful, mysterious work, charting hidden paths to refocus our view of the world around us.

The first Martin & Eliza Carthy duo album, The Moral Of The Elephant is just their voices, their instruments and elegantly simple arrangements, a brilliant release for Topic’s 75th year.

We talk to Pete Flood of Bellowhead about the new album Revival as well as his own personal journey in the search for musical bliss, an enthralling one that weaves a fascinating path.

Blue Rose Code proves every bit the poetic champion as the magnificent, musically expansive second album, The Ballads Of Peckham Rye, proves the healing has begun.

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