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A new name on the folk circuit, David Roberts makes his debut with the obliquely beautiful and poetic St Clears, an album inspired by a stay in the Carmarthenshire town of the same name. The album is full of references to nature, but cast in impressionistic lines that conjure a dreamy haze to wander through. A dappled musical dream that you won’t want to wake up from.

Drawn to Cornwall for the sun, surf, romance and unique culture our Artists of the Month, The Grenaways, tell FRUK about the magic they have found and channelled into the excellent Be Still Young Heart.

Canadian Michael Feuerstack is a one man music industry and The Forgettable Truth is the latest poetic bulletin in an extraordinary career and a record to harmonise head and heart.

Our Song of the Day is from Karen Dalton, a live version of her singing Red are the Flowers. It was recorded at a coffee house called The Attic in Boulder, Colorado in 1962.

Out of the circuit for almost a decade, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have hit a rich vein of form since their return and Tomorrow Will Follow Today finds the duo at their best.

Linking two outstanding talents in Jim Moray and Sam Carter, with Sam Nadel, Tom Moore, Nick Cooke and Jon Thorne, False Lights took Folk East 2014 by storm. Salvor is the reason why.

In part two of our exclusive interview Adrian, Becky and Rachel talk about the sourcing writing and arranging and recording of Mount The Air.

In the first part of our exclusive interview with The Unthanks they talk about their singing weekends and a vinyl playback of Mount The Air sees Adrian puncturing a few misconceptions.

We take a look at the world of the 78rpm collectors through two videos featuring leading collectors in the field: Ian Nagoski and Jonathan Ward. Don’t blame me if you get the bug!

With ‘Love And Logic’ suggesting a band really hitting its stride we catch up with Charlottesville band Sons Of Bill in a Bermondsey pub as they prepare for their UK tour leg.

It’s taken two years of patient work but Streets Of Laredo finally have the debut album that they always intended in the twisty, psychedelic, country-folk rumble of Volume I & II.

Stepping into the spotlight, Martin Callingham called on his friends from the Bristol scene to help create the beautifully realised statement album Tonight, We All Swim Free.

A good looking CD, Dan Webster’s The Tin Man also sounds fabulous as his newly learnt production skills make the most of some great playing and his literate songcraft and superb voice.

Working on a grand scale with incredible musical skill Treacherous Orchestra’s second album Grind is a masterpiece of symphonic invention and seat-of-the-pants virtuosity.

Irmin Schmidt, a founder of seminal 1970s German experimental band Can – is awarded French Knighthood. We pay tribute to the band’s guitarist, Michael Karoli who would have been 67 this year.

As a music-obsessed teenager in southern France, Franz Robert Wild gradually learned to turn his passion into his own songs and The French House proves the merit of living your dream.

Calexico played the final day of Celtic Connections this weekend featuring music from their new album Edge of the Sun. Ian McDonagh was there to capture some of the magic through the lens for Folk Radio UK.

Two years in the making and recorded in their own new studio set up, Mount The Air encapsulates all of the contradictions that make The Unthanks so beautifully thrilling.