Part Three of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Landless, Gwenifer Raymond, Jim Ghedi, Stick in the Wheel, Ross Ainslie, Fara, Sarah Louise, Jack Hayter, The Left Outsides, Nathan Bowles and more.
Ben Walker’s ‘The Fox on the Downs’ is his first solo EP on which he showcases his deft and intricate fingerstyle guitar with jaw-dropping arrangements of four solo guitar instrumentals. More, Please!
Josienne Clarke on audience numbers at gigs, chemistry of co-writing and their new album with Samantha Whates “…I guess it’s enabled me to express more joy…it’s bought out a different flavour of songwriting.”
Richard catches Josienne and Ben in Leicester – “there is a new maturity to them – the melancholia is still there, the introspection and self-reflection survive, but the control has shifted and a new path is being explored.”
Their early work was full of frailty; now, on this album, there is a new maturity that is reflected in strength with, perhaps, more than a touch of grit. The melancholia is still there, the introspection and self-reflection survive, but the control has shifted.
Listen to ‘Bathed In Light’, our Song of the Day taken from Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s forthcoming album ‘Seedlings All’ (out March 23rd on Rough Trade Records).
Rob heads to London’s Slaughtered Lamb for a live preview performance of Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker’s new album ‘Overnight’ due for release on Rough trade records on 14 Oct. 2016
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will release their debut album for Rough Trade, ‘Overnight,’ on October 14th. Listen to the album’s lilting first single, “The Waning Crescent”.
We talk to Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker and the duo bring us up to speed with what’s been happening including news of their new album coming out on Rough Trade in October!
Shirley Collins celebrates her 80th Birthday in style at Cecil Sharp House including a tribute concert with guests including Eliza Carthy, Billy Bragg, Jackie Oates , Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, Martin Wyndham Read, The Askew Sisters and more. Read our live review here.
Listen to ‘The Great Divide’, the debut single from Edgar Wallace Exchange, a newly formed London-based alt-folk quartet, produced by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Ben Walker. Don’t miss their upcoming live dates!
In ‘Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour’ Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have produced a work of beauty and depth which deserves to be acknowledged as a classic in the canon of contemporary UK folk music.
