Our Song of the Day comes from Merival – the moniker for Toronto-based singer-songwriter Anna Horvath, a name you’re not likely to forget after watching the video for her stunning, raw and tender new single ‘Sinner’.
Watch Erlend Apneseth Trio performing Magma live at Bergen Kjøtt in 2017. Taken from their 2016 debut album Det Andre Rommet. “One of my greatest sources of inspiration has been exploring my own instrument, finding new sounds, discords, really anything that can evoke a new mood or association.”
Following his 2015 album ‘The Marvel Age’, Franc Cinelli makes a long-awaited return in September with his new album Night Songs. Watch his video for lead single ‘Stay Strange’.
Watch Lankum’s one and only Radie Peat performing ‘My Bonny Boy’, also our Song of the Day. The video was made by This Ain’t No Disco which returns in the New Year. Don’t miss their special live event in Dublin on 26th September.
Following on from his debut EP Recôncavo released earlier this year on Phantom Limb, Brooklyn-based fingerstyle guitarist J.R. Bohannon is set to release his debut full-length album Dusk. Listen to lead single “Reflections of an American Dream”.
Johnny shares his Wickham highlights including Graham Nash, Judy Collins, National Youth Folk Ensemble, Ryan Young & Jenn Butterworth, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton, Treacherous Orchestra, Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys, TRADarrr, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and more.
Watch the new video from Lee Endres for ‘Weightlessness’, taken from his new EP “Air-conditioned” which was written over the second half of last year in Bulgaria where Lee had a woodhouse in the beautiful and isolated Iskar mountain range for three months.
On 11th October 2019, Richard Dawson is set to return with his sixth solo album 2020 which is already being called his “hardest-hitting and unflinchingly honest album to date” and “his poetic masterwork.” Pre-Order now.
Watch the new video from Sarah Jane Scouten for her new single “Ballad of a Southern Midwife”. The video comes from a 1931 silent film about the Frontier Nursing Services in rural Kentucky, which still runs today.
Taken from his forthcoming album Detritus (out on November 15, 2019), Brighton’s Marcus Hamblett has today released his new single ‘Lost At Sea’ which features Kate Stables of This Is The Kit.
We rewind the clock to 2009 to one of my all-time favourite albums – James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Folk Songs. Watch them in session including a short documentary.
Billy Bragg has announced Best Of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 – 2019, featuring classic performances by Bragg at the BBC from the early 80s through to the present; fully remastered, featuring many previously unreleased tracks & more.
