Unpredictable, varied and quirky, on the surface, Emily Barker’s ‘Fragile as Humans’ ought not to sound anything like a coherent whole but unequivocally does and represents her most personal, emotive album to date… a compassionate listen in every sense.
Songwriting duo Jacob & Drinkwater share their new single ’To Call You Friend’ featuring Emily Barker. The single is taken from their forthcoming new album ‘More Notes From The Field’ which they are on the road touring now.
Inspired by environmental concerns, Emily Barker premieres video for new single ‘Where Have the Sparrows Gone?’, taken from her forthcoming album ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’.
Emily Barker signs to Thirty Tigers and releases new single. The climate crisis that dominated last year’s news brought burning questions back to the fore for her, and ‘Return Me’ marks her response.
Listen to Emily Barker paying tribute to the late John Prine who passed away last month with a beautiful cover of “Hello in There” from his eponymous 1971 album.
New album series launched to support Grassroots Music Venues in the UK which are at imminent risk of being closed permanently. First release Features Billy Bragg, Emily Barker, The Little Unsaid, Edgelarks and more.
For this month and next, Emily Barker and Marry Waterson will be taking their album ‘A Window to Other Ways’ on the road. I caught up with Marry to talk about the album and how it all came about.
Watch the video for the new single from Marry Waterson & Emily Barker, taken from their new album together ‘A Window To Other Ways’ – an exciting, explorative journey, and a charmed collaboration.
Currently, on tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter in the UK, watch Emily Barker performing a cover of Mary Chapin’s Oh Rosetta which is also our Song of the day. Both singers share a love for the pioneering blues guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
London’s Green Note announces ‘Like A Women’, a musical celebration for International Women’s Day on Thursday 8th March ft. Michele Stodart, Jane Siberry, Emily Barker, Ren Harvieu, Kathryn Williams, Karima Francis and Raevennan Husbandes.
Del Day shares his personal highlights from this year’s UK Americana Awards at the Hackney Emire which included a stunning showcase, a Tom Petty tribute and wins for Robert Vincent, Robert Plant, Yola Carter, Emily Barker, Sam Outlaw, Thomas Collison and more.
Emily Barker has unveiled her new video for a heartbreaking new song titled Over My Shoulder that she wrote with one of Britain’s finest songwriters, Boo Hewerdine. The song features on her forthcoming new album Sweet Kind of Blue.
With her new album Sweet Kind Of Blue due this Spring (May 19th), listen to Emily Barker’s second single ‘Sunrise’ off her new record. It has that Memphis sound stamped through it like a stick of rock.
Our Song of the Day is via a new video from Emily Barker for Nostalgia, the first she’s made for the Wallander version of this song. It was filmed entirely in Sweden, at locations used in the BBC’s Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh.
Applewood Road is a polished yet rootsy record which which manages to cover a comprehensive selection of the benchmarks of the Americana genre, from country to bluegrass, rockabilly to country blues and a number of points in between. This is sure to find plenty of fans!
Emily Barker composes music for heart-warming new film ‘Hector’ – a story of a homeless man who makes an annual pilgrimage from Scotland to a London homeless shelter. Watch Emily performing the title track ‘Anywhere Away’, also our Song of the Day.
Under a new Union Music Store project a number of prominent folk singers give their response to the 2015 election result with a new album of contemporary protest songs. Listen to one of them with the new video from Lucy Ward for ‘Bigger Than That’.
Emily Barker’s ‘The Toerag Sessions’ is a masterclass in the art and craft of songwriting and an instructive and insightful record by one of today’s leading singer/songwriters. A record to be cherished and played again and again; The Toerag Sessions is the very definition of essential listening.
