Richard Thompson releases Live From Honolulu featuring Danny Thompson on double bass and Michael Jerome on Percussion. It features thirteen tracks including Mingus Eyes, Misunderstood, Shoot Out The Lights and more.
Earlier this year, Deer Scout, the alias of songwriter Dena Miller, delivered her remarkable debut album Woodpecker. Today, she shares her cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Suspended In Gaffa’, also our Song of the Day.
Sairie share their video for ‘One More Kiss Dear’, originally from the film Blade Runner. It features on their forthcoming EP of film music The Cinder Sheet which is released on 23rd September.
Andrew Combs’s latest album ‘Sundays’ was written on the heels of a mental breakdown which found him turning to transcendental meditation to find balance. Watch his video for ‘Anna Please’, inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s claustrophobic psychodrama Cries and Whispers.
Recorded earlier this year at The Neptune, Seattle, Hiss Golden Messenger has released “Wise Eyes”, the first in a series of live releases. The 17-track album includes deep cuts and crowd favourites, plus barn-burning renditions of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” and the Grateful Dead’s “Bertha.”
Chloe Matharu is a singer-songwriter and Celtic Harpist in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde. Watch her video for her latest single ‘Catching A Free Ride’, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘Small Voyages’.
Topic Records announce ‘Sea Song Sessions’, a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, featuring some of British folk music’s leading lights: Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter. Listen to the first single ‘The Rambling Sailor’.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared a gorgeous revitalized “Outsider” anthem, a cover version from one of the giants of the punk era, featuring a number of special guests including the dearly missed D.C. Berman.
Patrick Stefan is an Irish-Dutch singer and wayfarer; born in Co. Clare, now based in Dublin, listen to his latest single ‘Just another love song’, his take on a song written in the late ’60s by his father, Jack Groenland – a Dutch folk songwriter.
Watch the video for ‘It is Right to Give Drones and Praise’, the lead single from Ireland’s Tau & the Drones of Praise for their third full-length album, ‘Misneach’ which features guests from Tindersticks, Clannad as well as Irish troubadour Damien Dempsey.
Scottish folksinger and guitarist Kris Drever heads over to Ireland in September for a solo tour taking in Clonakilty International Guitar Festival and ending at Whelan’s in Dublin before heading back to the UK for an extensive run of November dates. Not to be missed.
Our Song of the Day is “I Needed You’, the lead single for Brooklyn-based folk songwriter Eliza Edens’ sophomore album We’ll Become the Flowers. Like a good photo, how you frame a subject makes all the difference, and Edens provides a masterclass in composition.
