Albums

Heidi Talbot heads into collaborative territory on her latest release Angels Without Wings featuring Mark Knopfler, King Creosote, Jerry Douglas, Tim O’Brien, Karine Polwart, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) Julie Fowlis and more.

Oes i Oes is a beautiful Welsh album from Cass Meurig and Nial Cain. It is released this month, a thing of great beauty that I could happily listen to it all day and never tire of!

John Carroll’s latest release ‘Let Every Tongue’ is an intriguing release that grabs at your curiosity, plaintive and melancholic arrangements deceive the listener of the album’s great depth.

The twelve tracks that make up Kyle Fosburgh’s latest release ‘The Traveler’s Journey’ are faultless. From American Primitive to pre-war folk blues this acoustic album will leave you with a beatific smile on your face.

Pangea is a stunning debut release from Manchester based Emma Sweeney who has been quietly building an enviable reputation on the folk scene. The album will be launched at Celtic Connections.

Alexander Wolfe’s album Skeleton’s offers intricate guitar work, shimmering soundscapes, intimate, yearning vocals and bruising lyrical vignettes…a cacophonous leap into the sublime…

Old Crow Medicine Show’s fourth studio LP ‘Carry Me Back’ marks another milestone in their bluegrass odyssey as they serve up a stew of fever-pitch foot-stomping musical mayhem.

For many young folk music fans Galley Beggar may well be their first introduction to British folk-rock and I can’t think of a finer or better band out there to carry the revival banner.

Broken Anchor is the charismatic union of singer/songwriter Austin Hartley-Leonard and producer Brad Gordon. Their three stunning short volumes of work are available for free from their website.

The Keston Cobbler’s Club are without doubt one of the most inventive and creative bands on the folk scene, their debut album ‘One, For Words’ proves this without doubt. Watch their exclusive Folk Radio UK Session!

Wooden Flute and Fiddle is a fantastically inventive debut release from Calum Stewart and Lauren MacColl. Fiercely tradtional but remarkably inventive and unexpected.

Ralph McTell’s guitar playing is rhythmic, sensitive and lyrical; his voice is smooth yet earthy and his songs accessible. He is witty and speaks with the humour of a friend casually sharing stories over a pint.