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Our Song of the Day is the title track taken from Justin Townes Earle‘s latest album Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now. This is Earle’s fourth release which he chose to record completely live in just four days and the change in direction didn’t stop at production, this album has a brimful of soul with some fine Memphis brass that brightens those minor chords with a …
The latest podcast from Propermusic focuses on the Songlines Music Awards this week with Songlines editor Jo Frost, Nathaniel Handy, Tim Cumming & Trevor Dann. They cast their eyes down the list of 16 nominees this year and have a good banter along with excerpts from each nominee. Nominees We have included links where we have featured an artist. BEST ARTIST Abigail Washburn (for the album City of Refuge on …
The mighty King Creosote is to release a new EP on Domino Records titled ‘I Learned From The Gaels‘. The EP gets to see the light of day on 28th May when it will be released as as 12″ and as a digital download…a date we are informed has some significance…”a mere 509 years to the day that Scots King James IV and Margaret Tudor’s wedding was accompanied by a …
Fans of John Martyn will be pleased to hear that the ‘Man Upstairs‘ DVD which features a 1978 concert film of John, made for german television, is to be re-released. The DVD has proven popluar to fans across the globe which features John perfoming songs from ‘One World’ alongside older material from albums such as ‘Solid Air’, ‘Bless the Weather’ and ‘Sunday’s Child’. John is on great form and also …
As the 5th Anniversary of Record Store Day fast approaches (Saturday 21st April) a large number of bands have signed up for playing gigs across the country at their local independent record stores. As you’d expect, London based Rough Trade Shops have a series of gigs running at their two stores which include Johnny Flynn, Stealing Sheep, Cate Le Bon & Smoke Fairies whose new album titled ‘Blood Speaks‘ is …
Slow Club have covered ‘Edge Of Town‘ from the Francois & The Atlas Mountains album ‘E Volo Love‘. You can listen to it below. It will feature as part of Record Store Day split 7″: The ‘Gold Mountain’/’Edge Of Town’ out on 21st April on Domino Records. Also don’t miss Francois and The Atlas Mountains this Saturday when they will be joining Rozi Plain on the Simple Folk Radio show …
This Monday (16th April) Julie Murphy releases her new solo album ‘A Quiet House‘, her first since “Lilac tree” ten years ago! Julie has asked Folk Radio UK to feature a live video stream of the album launch party which will take place in Julie’s own front room. The event will be filmed by Jacob Whittaker and and the stream will go live just before 8:30pm so please come and …