Albums

The Routes Quartet live up to their liner notes by using all of the possible tones and textures of a string quartet. A deceptively simple album that is carried off with a real feel for the music. It’s a truly cathartic listen.

Sam Baker’s last release was declared one of the 10 best Americana albums of 2013. Working in Nashville for the first time under producer Neilson Hubbard, Land of Doubt should repeat the feat for 2017.

We rejoin David Morrison at Campbell Bay Music Festival in British Columbia as he shares the highlights of a very hot Day Two featuring Shelder the Electric Clamfish, Tremblers of Sevens, The Stash! Band, Cuddle Magic & more.

“I’ll Be Yours” is a lively, well-produced album, featuring the diverse styles this band brings to the table. They draw from the great American tradition – Solid songwriting and top-notch musicianship should get The Americans some much-deserved attention.

In a special two-part series David Morrison shares his highlights of this year’s Campbell Bay Music Festival on Mayne Island, British Columbia. Day One includes Fish & Bird, Roger Roger, The Revelers, Top Men, Distant Grand and more.

Dellar plays with many styles on this impressive album and the picking is so beautifully human throughout that it feels like an antithesis to many of the click-track recorded sessions we hear.

Underhill Rose deliver a live album of their Appalachian-flavoured folk music that’s sure to be in popular demand following their recent tour of the UK & Ireland.

Likened equally to The Travelling Willburys, George Harrison, the Band and Jerry Garcia, Sideways Rain is a 13-track collection of American folk-tinted pop.

Johnny finds himself at Oban Live for 2017 and shares some his highlights of the weekend including Trail West, Skipinnish, Tide Lines and of course, Skerryvore.

On Play One More Tom Russell celebrates the songs of Ian & Sylvia Tyson, the Canadian folk duo who were there at the start of the Greenwich Village folk boom and who also were early starters in the country rock stakes in the early seventies.

Musically tied to the dry and dusty landscape of his adoptive Texas home, Put it Together reinforces Jim Keaveny’s position as one of the most authentic dust bowl Americana artists currently riding the trail.

London-based songer songwriter Nigel Brown returns with Looking For The Rising Sun, his eighth self-released album.