On his album, Nasgino Inagei Nidayulenvi, Oklahoma Cherokee singer and songwriter Agalisaga “Chuj” Mackey makes beautiful country and roots songs that speak of love, death, a reverence for the natural world, all a key part of his personal vision to revitalise the endangered Cherokee language.
Johnny Whalley catches up with Scottish fiddler Ryan Young, who chats about learning to play the fiddle again and how one of his big heroes, Martin Hayes, will produce and perform on his third album.
In the second of our Wickham Festival interview-shorts, Johnny Whalley catches up with Katherine Priddy, who chats about her recent musical journey and her third album.
We catch up with Muireann Bradley at Wickham Festival. The 17 year old blues and folk guitarist and singer from Ballybofey in County Donegal, Ireland released her debut album last year on Tompkins Square.
Dawn Landes chats to KLOF Mag about her latest album The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, inspired by a songbook from 1971, published at the height of the Women’s Liberation Movement and compiled by folklorist and guitarist Jerry Silverman.
Gearing up to release Silver Horizon (out this Friday, 16th August), Sheffield-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Sam Carter talks to us about his distinctive new sound.
Banjoist Nathan Bowles and his band, drummer Rex McMurry and double bassist Casey Toll, join us to discuss their new album Are Possible, Nathan’s follow-up to 2018’s Plainly Mistaken and their first full-length trio effort.
We caught up with Jake Xerxes Fussell to discuss his new album, When I’m Called. He chatted about the recording process, working with James Elkington, the influence of artist, musician, folklorist, and mentor Art Rosenbaum, and more.
This month saw the release of M G Boulter’s new album, Days of Shaking. He is our latest Off the Shelf guest in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves in their homes and talk about them.
It’s unusual to encounter a debut full-length album with as much confidence and clarity as Malin Lewis’s Halocline, which is also a work of subtle, nuanced beauty. We met with the Scottish piper to learn more about it.
We catch up with Richard Thompson and mull over all things RT, including former band mates, surprising career break diversions, the writing process, guitar playing stamina, family and of course, the brand new album Ship to Shore.
We met with guitarist Bill MacKay to discuss Locust Land, his third long player for Drag City. The album’s focus and detail shout confidence and clarity, and it features some of the most driving and uptempo songs he’s ever written.
