Albums

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.

With its seamless, timeless blend of the traditional and the modern, Stories Still Untold should be in the top purchase list of any folksong fan and place Ewan amongst the music’s elite.

It’s not easy to cover such a vibrant history but Real World 25 does an outstanding job, creating a playlist mixing classics, with a deeper delve into fans catalogue choices.

Kathryn Tickell and The Side bring together the influences that have shaped their music to create something elevating and wonderful, it takes the listener on a fascinating journey.

I Can’t Wait is the long overdue sophomore return of Fayssoux an album that will most certainly kindle a warm glow in those who hear it.

Caroline Rose’s latest release I Will Not Be Afraid is a raw album fuelled by tough, rootless life, but also one with the freedom to live, act and say how and what she wants.

Paul takes in a great evening of entertainment as Peter Bruntnell and Stevie Ray Latham put on a night to remember at London’s Green Note.