Kris Drever will tour with his own band this summer. To celebrate, Reveal Records have issued an expansive (36-song) career-spanning compilation album that features three exclusive new songs “Catterline”, “Punchbag”, and “Dust in Light” (written with label mate Boo Hewerdine).
The Norway-based Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra release “The Broken Circle Sessions” today; watch them performing their album opener ‘Heaven and Hell’ as a 15-strong orchestra in front of a sold-out audience.
Scotland’s revered folk trio The Langan Band announce their first record in ten years, Plight o’ Sheep. Listen to their lead single, ‘One Whole Year’, also our Song of the Day.
Filmed in the ancient heart of Bergamo, Italy, watch the accompanying video for Buck Curran’s Winter Solstice 1, taken from the recently released ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’. We also have details of his Robbie Basho 12 String Restoration Project.
American Primitive Guitar pioneer Harry Taussig will release his new album ’80’ via Tompkins Square on his 82nd birthday. He reflects on how he wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories and how he did so through theories of classical musical forms.
Later this month Steve Dawson releases his newest album, Eyes Closed, Dreaming. Watch him in session with Joachim Cooder, Jeremy Holmes, Darryl Havers and Krystle Dos Santos for the beautiful and engaging original ‘Hemingway’.
Taken from Lankum’s fourth album, watch the visualiser video for their new single ‘The New York Trader’, a ‘Jonah Ballad’ that they learned from Ringsend native Luke Cheevers.
Omnivore Recordings and Iconic Artists Group announce Stephen Stills Live At Berkeley 1971, a previously unissued recording made during his first US Tour. Each show opened to an intimate acoustic set, and closed with a riveting electric set featuring the Memphis Horns.
Taken from his new album “Secret Stratosphere”, check our ‘Area Code 601’ from William Tyler & The Impossible Truth – Hawkwind meets The Charlie Daniels Band. Also our Song of the Day.
Watch the new video for Counting Stars, the latest single from Glasgow-based Indie folk band Snows of Yesteryear. With such impressive early offerings like this, you will definitely want to keep this band on your radar.
Watch the video for ‘Painterly’, the new single from guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn and pianist and composer David Moore. It’s taken from their forthcoming new album Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet, a new serial from RVNG Intl. showcasing contemporary collaborations.
Athens, Georigia-based guitarist and songwriter, Shane Parish, offers this peak behind the curtain of his first full-length album of ‘songs with words’ with a lush and hypnotic video for his deliciously quirky “Walk Back Words”, also our Song of the Day.
