Albums

To be following your creative instincts with such certitude at this stage of a musical career is rare and to be applauded, especially when the results are as warm and refreshing as Good-bye Lizelle.

Marianne Faithfull’s latest offering Features an inspired number of collaborators. Quite possibly the album to deliver her first Top 40 placing since 1965.

Starting a string of Scottish dates today, before heading out to Europe, Skerryvore give Folk Radio UK an exclusive insight into their hectic world and the brilliant new album Chasing The Sun.

With a stage show to complement the CD David Gibbs offers up a great new album for children featuring the likes of Blue Rose Code, Nancy Kerr, Bella Hardy, Lucy Ward and Jez Lowe.

Winchester-born singer Louise Jordan returns with her third self-produced Latin titled album ‘Veritas’ that showcases her clear, pure soprano and accomplished guitar and piano playing.

Fieldnotes is a gentle un-rushed musical affair from James Haddock Jr. backed by a fantastic set of musicians including Nathan “Junior” Andersen of M.Ward/The Dandy Warhols.

Luke Winslow-King’s fourth album draws extensively on the musical roots his adopted home of New Orleans. A stylistically diverse but cohesive collection of fine Southern blues.

On ‘South Wind, Clear Sky’ Mark Fry has created a set of songs that examine innocence, loneliness, tranquillity and adventure with a painter’s eye for detail and an enviable compositional skill.

In ‘Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour’ Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have produced a work of beauty and depth which deserves to be acknowledged as a classic in the canon of contemporary UK folk music.

Having passed the 20 year mark in her extraordinary career, Kate Rusby is busy as ever, with a brilliant new album Ghost, a UK tour and two young’uns to educate in the family’s musical tradition.

Even when the subject matter’s downbeat Police Dog Hogan find positivity and deliver it with the sort of buoyancy and verve as they so ably demonstrate on their new album.

Follow the Music is a superb record in every way, it exudes a gentleness borne of strength, revealing its heart and soul, its depth and beauty, in its own sweet time, over successive listens.