Today sees the release of On Clay Hill, the debut album from Stick in the Wheel band member Fran Foote and her mother Belinda Kempster. Watch their new music video for John Barleycorn.
On Stick In The Wheel’s second ‘From Here’ compilation well-known interpreters of traditional song rub shoulders with experimental folkies while Brit-folk royalty has a place at the table alongside impassioned protest-singers.
On the latest Folk on Foot podcast, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter from Stick in the Wheel take Matthew from a Victorian weaver’s house in Spitalfields to Walthamstow Market and the Rose and Crown pub and finally onto Epping Forest…performing songs along the way.
Watch Nancy Kerr performing the opening track from Stick in the Wheel’s second volume of English Folk Field Recordings. The album is out on 19th April and it will be released via their own label ‘From Here Records’.
Stick in the Wheel announce ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2’ featuring Richard Dawson, Sandra Kerr, Rachel Unthank, Grace Petrie, Nancy Kerr, Cath & Phil Tyler, June Tabor, Chris Wood, C Joynes, Kathryn Tickell and more.
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.
This And The Memory Of This offers a gallery of emotional contact where the dark edges of life, the shadows and the just glimpsed, play on our aural emotions. Stick In The Wheel continue to explore those limits, which may be further than you at first thought.
Stick in the Wheel have shared the video for ‘In the Morning’ which features Anna Roberts-Gevalt of Anna and Elizabeth. The track features on their new mixtape release ‘THIS AND THE MEMORY OF THIS’ which is out now.
Watch Stick in the Wheel performing the ‘Weaving Song’ with Sandra Kerr who sang the original as Madeleine the Rag Doll from the children’s classic TV series Bagpuss, the music for which is to be re-released next month in all its newly-mastered splendour.
Folk on Foot – which raced to No 1 in the iTunes music podcast chart on its launch day – will be back from October 19 and will feature Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Kerry Andrew, Fisherman’s Friends, Stick in the Wheel and Julie Fowlis.
Ahead of their forthcoming autumn tour Stick in the Wheel release digital single ‘Cruel Ship’s Captain’. It’s taken from their forthcoming Mixtape release which features collaborations with Lisa Knapp, Om Unit and Anna Roberts-Gevalt of Anna & Elizabeth.
Stick in the Wheel’s ‘Follow Them True’ establishes them as a band with a singular vision. Yes, it is a brilliant album and will undoubtedly gain great acclaim, but it’s more than just an album for 2018, this is something to treasure for many years to come.
