Calexico played the final day of Celtic Connections this weekend featuring music from their new album Edge of the Sun. Ian McDonagh was there to capture some of the magic through the lens for Folk Radio UK.
Having signed a worldwide deal with Nonesuch Records in 2013 listen to Olivia Chaney performing ‘The King’s Horses’ from her forthcoming album. She tours the US and Canada from next month.
We have an beautiful video premiere from North Carolina-based Americana folk artist, Tyler Nail, with his cover of Book of Love, written by Stephin Merritt. It features on his new album Feathers. Watch it here.
Our Song of the Day is from Rhiannon Giddens and Iron & Wine performing “Forever Young.” The song is by Bob Dylan and first appeared on his 1974 Planet Waves.
Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett announces new LP and UK tour. Watch her new video for Pedestrian At Best in which she lets loose an internal monologue crammed with twisting rhymes.
Emily Barker announces new solo album The Toerag Sessions, produced by Liam Watson who mixed and engineered The White Stripes break-through album “Elephant”. You can pre-order the album via Pledge Music.
Brian Wilson’s new album ‘No Pier Pressure’ will feature a number of guest artists including M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel of She & Him as well as members of the Beach Boys.
Seems like only recently we were introducing Baltimore’s Lower Dens who have just announced their third album ‘Escape from Evil’, listen to the lead single, ‘To Die in L.A.’
Our Song of the Day comes from Sorren Maclean who hails from the Isle of Mull, he is currently touring with King Creosote and will soon be supporting Idlewild on tour. One to watch for 2015.
Elbow did it, Bellowhead did it, time for the Scots! Idlewild launch their own beer ‘Scottish Fiction IPA’, named after a track from the band’s album The Remote Part.
