Albums

Bella Hardy interviews David Rotheray about his new project and album The Answer Ballads and other important things like where’s the best pint in Hull…

Travel wild-Travel Free is Steve Cradock’s third solo album, a psychedelic tour through the decades which is uncompromising in approach, familiar yet unique!

Folk Radio UK talks to Cocos Lovers for a behind the scenes look at this magical Kent based 8-piece band that is made up of family, friends and former au pairs. Gold or Dust is out now & is one of our Album’s of the Month.

Doug Tielli has picked out Kersley’s idiosyncrasies and made them into a beautiful and wide-ranging collection of songs that for all their strangeness and stylistic audacity sound as if they were plucked from the rain-soaked ground.

Helen catches a great performance by Gill Sandell at The Green Note accompanied by Ted Barnes, Anna Jenkins, Jo Silverston with a guest appearance from Adrian Crowley.

David Rotheray’s ‘Answer Ballads’ features some of the best singers around today, read our album review and listen to three exclusive Song Premières!

One of the great female folk voices of the 70s and early 80s was almost lost forever, but having battled a debilitating illness ‘Won’t Be Long Now’ is a triumphant return for Linda Thompson.

The release of The Young Tradition’s live album ‘Oberlin 1968’ demonstrates that after 45 years they still sound fresh and vital and would still put the wind up a significant sector of the folk fraternity if the show rolled into town today.

Lowri Evans ‘Corner of My Eye’ has hidden depths that call you back for repeated listenings, the ideal platform for for her to find the wider recognition that her music deserves.

Watch the FRUK Exclusive Video Première of Joseph Arthur’s ‘Currency Of Love’, the orchestral pop opener on his latest album The Ballad Of Boogie Christ.

With her upcoming record I’m a Dreamer, Josephine Foster asks you to slowdance in the space between sleeping and waking until a stubborn smile rises across your face.

Chatma, the new album from Tamikrest, is possibly one of the most powerful and inspirational records to emerge from the conflict in Northern Mali to date.