This is a list of everything we have on folking.com in date and month order. So if you like trawling the depths of the site for amazing content that you may have missed then this is the place to “net” an article, feature or review or two.
The archive is a work in progress as we still have gaps to fill from 2009 back to 2001. Most of the missing content are older album reviews which require reformatting with each article having to be submitted back on to the site with album covers and links to where they can be obtained from (where available).
KATE DOUBLEDAY – Flutter (Copper Records CRCD004)
There’s a real pastoral vibe about Kate Doubleday’s new album, not to mention a certain fruity motif. It does get perilously close to the imagined ...
India Electric Co – new album
Pigeon hole India Electric Co. at your peril. Packing a punch, Cole Stacey and Joseph O’Keefe - the acoustic duo with the electric name - ...
ODESSEY & ORACLE – Odessey & Oracle And The Casiotone Orchestra (Folkwit f0125)
Readers with long memories may wonder why we are featuring a record by a band named after an album by a 60s pop group known ...
Ken Tizzard announces new album
Very few Canadian musicians have had as fascinatingly diverse a career as Ken Tizzard. In over two decades as a professional musician, he has gone from ...
BEN REEL – 7th (B.Reel Records BRBCDA-015)
Ben Reel plays folk music in pretty much the same way Led Zeppelin did – the roots are there, buried deep, but sometimes they emerge ...
ALEX WOOD – I Am Not Lost (Woodman Records)
The title track of Alex Wood’s album, which also opens the show, is a lazy languid blues-edged number with acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica. It’s ...
DANNY PEDLER & ROSIE BUTLER-HALL – Bold (own label)
Once in a while, completely out of the blue, an unexpected gem turns up and this is one such. Bold is the debut album, well, ...
SARAH McQUAID – Walking Into White (Waterbug WBG119)
The first thing that strikes you about Sarah McQuaid is her guitar sound: clear, ringing trebles and big authoritative bass notes. It should come as ...
THE BARKER BAND – The Land We Hold Dear (BB Records BAR008)
I have to confess that I hadn’t heard of The Barker Band before this album turned up…and it’s their sixth. They come from west London ...
PACKIE MANUS BYRNE RIP
Many of you will know that Packie Byrne died on May 12th. He was 98 years old and had been in poor health for some ...
EDDY MORTON – Rainbow Man (New Mountain Music NMM 2015/2)
Rainbow Man is Eddy Morton’s fourth solo album since the demise of The Bushburys and it finds him cast in the role of neo-sixties troubadour ...
Skerryvore – new single featuring Sharon Shannon
‘Happy To Be Home’ is the new single from Scottish folk-fusion band Skerryvore featuring legendary Irish musician Sharon Shannon. The song is the first preview ...
Good Lovelies – new single and album
Canadian folk trio, Good Lovelies, are excited to release double A-side single 'In The Morning' / 'Waiting For You' taken from their eagerly anticipated new ...
KATHRYN ROBERTS AND SEAN LAKEMAN – Tomorrow Will Follow Today (Icecream Music ISCD14)
The eagerly awaited new album from Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman - who have won the Best Duo award in the Spiral Earth Awards 2015 ...
THE POOZIES – Into The Well (Schmooz SchmoozCD002)
The Poozies isn’t so much a band as an academy for female musicians. Stars who have passed through its ranks include Patsy Seddon, Kate Rusby, ...
Barrule announce second album
Two years ago, exciting new trio Barrule were men on a mission - to bring Manx music to the wider world. Their refreshingly different, self-titled ...
BEAU – Shoeless in the Desert (Cherry Red BEAUSITD1)
The second album of new material from Trevor Midgley since he resurfaced last year with Fly The Bluebird and the subsequent reissue of his 1971 ...
THE PROCLAIMERS – Let’s Hear It For The Dogs (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD616W)
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity in the wake of the Walking On Sunshine film, the Reid twins return with their 10th album, the follow up ...
The Wooden Sky – new album, single and video
Canadian band The Wooden Sky have announced their highly anticipated fourth album Let's Be Ready, out on June 15th via Nevado Music. This release marks ...
Tom Baxter – new single and tour dates
With the release of his beautifully crafted new single, 'The Arc', due for release at the end his tour of UK and Ireland on 14th ...
WES FINCH – Awena (Unity Roots Productions)
I’ve had a copy of this album for some months but was sworn to silence until its release was set. I did as I was ...
Peatbog Faeries – new album
Blackhouse is the eagerly awaited seventh studio album by the multi award winning band Peatbog Faeries. With the debut of fi ddle player, Ross Couper, it ...
The Bloom – first release
Perth in West Australia is known for being one of the most remote capital cities in the world and, for having some of the best ...
THE APRIL MAZE – Sleeping Storm (Self-Released A-MAZE006)
Having made their UK debut last year with an amalgam of their first two albums, Anglo-Australian husband and wife duo Sivan Agam and Todd Mayhew ...
10,000 Maniacs release traditional album
Having conquered the alternative rock world with multi-platinum selling albums and unforgettable singles such as 'These Are The Days', 10,000 Maniacs have released the most ...
ALISTAIR OGILVY – July Moon (July Moon Records JMOO1CD)
A rising star on the Scottish folk scene, the erstwhile Young Traditional Musician of the Year finalist made quite an impression with his 2012 debut ...
MATTHEW THE OXX – First Aid For The Drowning (Wild Sound WILDSOUND056)
The name Matthew The Oxx partially conceals the identity of Matthew Oldfield, son of Simon and nephew of Mike. It would have been very easy ...
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner – new video
This is just for the delight in the music. The official video to accompany 'Death And The Lady'. The album, Layers Of Ages, is released ...
HEATH COMMON – Encounters With Light (Hi4Head Records HFHCD017)
I think it’s fair to say that Heath Common is unique. He lives in Scarborough and has been a journalist and a head-teacher and got ...
Richard Thompson – new album Still
The renowned guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson will release Still, an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 29, 2015 via Proper ...
Keston Cobblers Club – new album
On June 15th one of the UK’s best kept secrets, the brilliant pop-folk 5-piece Keston Cobblers Club release their anticipated new album – Wildfire, out ...
LUCIA COMNES – Love, Hope & Tyranny (Delfina DR384-LC07)
Born in San Francisco, Comnes began her musical life singing with an a capella female ensemble that specialised in Balkan and Eastern European folk music ...
The Winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 Announced
At this years 2015 Radio 2 Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievements went to the legendary "Peace Trained" musician Yusuf / Cat Stevens and Grammy Award-winning "double ...
NIAMH BOADLE – Maid On The Shore (WildGoose WGS411CD)
Niamh Boadle comes from the Fylde coast of Anglo-Irish stock and Maid On The Shore, her second album, reflects her heritage. It’s an intriguing mix ...
MOIRAI – Sideways (WildGoose WGS 410 CD)
It couldn’t really happen in any other sphere of musical life. I mean, you don’t get orchestras gathering at the pub after a festival for ...
Barna Howard announces second album
Barna Howard has announced the release of his second album Quite A Feelin' on 18th May 2015 via Loose Music. Barna Howard was born and ...
SKINNY LISTER – Down On Deptford Broadway (XtraMile)
Though based in Greenwich, London, the band have roots all over England and further afield, melodeon and mandolin player Max Thomas and singer sister Lorna ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Folk Awards 2015 (Proper PROPERFOLK16)
It’s that time again when the folk world looks back and hands out gongs to the great and good while conspiracy theories abound. Actually there ...
MICHELLE BURKE – Step Into My Parlour (Kilcronat Records KLC002CD)
It’s probably a dreadful cliché to describe this album as “beguiling” but that is exactly what it is. The style stems from Michelle’s childhood memories ...
APRIL VERCH – The Newpart (Slab Town Records STR15-01)
Let’s get my reservation out of the way first. Verch is an acclaimed stepdancer and, as such, her nimble footwork forms part of several of ...
THE KENNEDYS – West (Self-Released TK1211)
In recent weeks, I've heard several artists who have reminded me of the late great John Stewart, making me think that definite reissue series or ...
LUKE JACKSON- This Family Tree (First Take Records FTCD001)
Luke Jackson opened his account with two superb solo albums and he could be forgiven for sitting back and giving us more of the same ...
The Jeremiah Brothers announce debut album
Kevin and Ciaran Jeremiah have musicality in their blood. Growing up in a family band the brothers played 60s and Irish folk music, finger picking ...
Inti Rowland – debut album
Recorded in six days in a converted chapel in the Scottish highlands, 17th Century Japanese Aviary is the first full length release from London-based singer-songwriter ...
Justin Townes Earle – new single and video
Absent Fathers was recorded alongside Single Mothers as a double album, but as Justin began to sequence it, he felt each half needed to make ...
ROBIN ADAMS – The Garden (Backshop Records BSRCD004)
The Garden is the second album from a young singer-songwriter from Glasgow. He plays acoustic guitar and harmonica and is supported on one track by ...
THE YOUNG ‘UNS – Another Man’s Ground (Hereteu Records YNGS30)
The only reason that this album isn’t absolutely perfect is that there isn’t enough of it. It’s not that The Young ‘Uns have short-changed us ...
MORTON VALENCE – Another Country (Bastard Recordings BR11)
Nodding to the desert moods of Giant Sand and Mark Lanegan and the urban claustrophobia of The Cowboy Junkies, the London based five piece, part ...
MALINKY – Far Better Days (Malinky Music MM001)
I love the music that is being produced in Scotland these days. I love its adventurousness and its imagination. I love the way that musical ...
Rura – new album and tour
One of the most exciting folk-based bands to emerge from Scotland in recent years, Rura returns with their feverishly-anticipated second album, Despite the Dark. Rugged ...
THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG/MERRY HELL/THE LONDON SEWAGE COMPANY – The O2 Empire, Shepherd’s Bush
This was a prestige gig billed for TMTCH as The 30th Anniversary Reprise Show – nothing like making the most of it. The London Sewage ...
TOM RUSSELL – The Rose Of Roscrae (Proper Records PRPCD130)
The term “ballad opera” isn’t heard much these days but that is exactly what we have here. There are fifty-two tracks divided into two acts ...
Mawkin return with new album release and tour
Folk rebels Mawkin will be embarking on a 12 date tour over the next month that will showcase their brand new album release The Ties ...
Townes Van Zandt – ‘The Nashville Sessions’
Released Monday, April 20th 2015 on CD and deluxe vinyl The death of Townes Van Zandt in 1997 at the age of only fifty-two robbed ...
Johnny Cash – The Complete American Recordings
USM present the Johnny Cash American Recordings LP box set -- Contains all studio albums released between 1994 and 2010 on 180gm vinyl. Considered to be ...
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 Lifetime Achievement and Good Tradition Awards Announced
BBC Radio 2 has announced the recipients of this year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Awards. The two prestigious lifetime achievement accolades will be ...
Sukh – New Single
‘For The Road’ Out April 27th 2015 Doctor by day, musician by night, the young Mancunian songwriter Sukh returns with brand new track ‘For the ...
MIKE REINSTEIN – A Long March Home (Irregular IRR096)
There are some record labels that just inspire confidence. Irregular is one such and so I seized hold of this album, Mike’s second, sight unseen ...
Folkstock Records – Peggy Seeger announced as patron
We are thrilled that Peggy Seeger has joined us as a Patron. Now we are supported by two of the most inspirational musicians of our ...
Eliza Carthy and Tim Eriksen have got Bottle
Bottle is the first album by the dream duo - Eliza Carthy and Tim Eriksen. These highly regarded artists from either side of the Atlantic ...
BRENDAN McAULEY – The McCartneys Of Pennyburn (Copperplate COPP027)
There is a long back-story behind this record. In 1865, one Patrick McCartney bought the lease of Pennyburn House near Derry and his family lived ...
Folking Says Goodbye To One Of Our Own
The passing of Pete Fyfe is a huge loss and a great blow to folk music in general. Pete Fyfe was a huge supporter, writer ...
STEVE PLEDGER – Striking Matches In The Wind (Story Records STREC1657)
Born in Cambridge, raised in St Neots and now based in Somerset, Pledger’s been quietly building a following over the past 20 years, relying on ...
HEG & THE WOLF CHORUS – Rain (own label)
While we still wait for their debut album, promised for 2016, the rather wonderful Heg & The Wolf Chorus bring us the third of their ...
BLUEFLINT- Stories From Home (Johnny Rock JOROCK021)
This, the third album by Edinburgh banjo-playing singers Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson, again draws on influences from both traditional American and English folk, here ...
NORAH RENDELL- Spinning Yarns (Two Tap Music TTM016)
Spinning Yarns is a collection of traditional songs mostly harvested in eastern Canada from Newfoundland southwards. Two actually surfaced in Wisconsin but they passed through ...
The Demon Barbers – new album and tour
‘Maverick English Folk’, The Demon Barbers, who celebrate their 15th anniversary this year, have teamed up with Grammy & Emmy Award winning producers for their ...
Billy Lockett – new single, video and tour
Billy Lockett has revealed the dark brooding video for his new single ‘Never Let You Go’. The video premiered at TMRW who said, “Tugging at ...
Whitehorse – new album
Canadian duo Whitehorse announce new album Leave No Bridge Unburned set for release on April 20th 2015 on Six Shooter Records. Whitehorse formed in 2010 ...
Jenny Lysander – debut album, Northern Folk
In September 2012, nineteen-year-old Swedish songwriter Jenny Lysander posted a cover of Piers Faccini’s 'Time Of Nought' on YouTube. A couple of months, and several ...
MERRY HELL – The Ghost In Our House and other stories…(Mrs Casey Music MCRCD5102)
This is Merry Hell’s third album and the band are into their stride. There is a tightness and polish evident in this collection of songs, ...
New Ron Sexsmith album CAROUSEL ONE out March 31st
(Nashville, TN) March 16, 2014 – Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith is preparing for the release of his new studio album, Carousel One, out in North America on Tuesday, March ...
Emily Barker – new album
Emily Barker's new album is a collection of solo versions of her songs, recorded live to 2-track tape at Toerag Studios in London with grammy-winning producer Liam Watson (The White Stripes ...
Medieval world-folk-rock band ‘Serpentyne’ share video for ‘Valkyries’
New album 'Myths & Muses' out now Maggie-Beth Sand – Lead vocal, harmonium, bouzouki. Mark Powell – Hurdy-gurdy, cittern, guitar, backing vocals. Pam Pecko Smith ...
KATZENJAMMER – Rockland (Propeller Recordings PPR113)
Katzenjammer is a four piece all girl band from Norway and ‘Rockland’ is their third album. It is a potpourri of differing styles; lacking in ...
Norah Rendell – new album – Spinning Yarns
With: Brian Miller (Guitar, Bouzouki, Mandola) Randy Gosa (Guitar, Mandola) Ailie Robertson (Harp) - Dáithí Sproule (Guitar) Adam Kiesling (Bass) Spinning Yarns is a hand-picked ...
Steve Pledger – Striking Matches In The Wind album launch
Tithe Barn, Dunster, Somerset 14th March 2015 Dunster based singer/songwriter Steve Pledger stunned audiences with his Striking Matches in The Wind album launch in the ...
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO – A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula Records LULA 1504)
Where The Handsome Family lead, Pharis & Jason Romero stay closer to their roots. They are otherwise very similar – a husband and wife duo, ...
Fairport Convention – Nancy Dunham analyses Myths & Heroes and talks to Chris Leslie
What is Fairport Convention doing, releasing such a modern, rocking record this far into the band’s life? Don’t they know groups are supposed to settle ...
DAEVID ALLEN 13th January 1938 – 13th March 2015
It is with great sadness that we report the passing away of the great Daevid Allen, for many years the leading light in the anarchic ...
FOTHERINGAY – Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay (Universal)
Fotheringay are perhaps less famous for what they achieved than for their unrealised potential. They released a single, ‘Peace In The End’ and ‘Winter Winds’, ...
AWNA TEIXEIRA – Wild One (Self Released ART 002)
Po’Girl still on hiatus, Teixeira continues her solo path with a second album that showcases her backporch bluegrass with her prowess on banjo, accordion (heard ...
Le Vent Du Nord – new album
Quebec’s most progressive folk band Le Vent du Nord return with their eighth album entitled Têtu meaning stubborn or obstinate. For the purpose of clarity ...
LITTLE MOUNTAIN – Self-titled (Fly Agaric FAR001)
Founded by sometime Morcheeba multi-instrumentalist, Ross Godfrey, and also featuring partner Amanda Zamolo and Steven Forshaw, the latter two both handling vocal duties, the trio ...
ALLISON MOORER – Down To Believing (Proper PROPCD126)
Her first album since splitting from husband Steve Earle and the former diagnosis of her son with autism, both events inevitably play a significant part ...
Gigspanner – new album and tour dates
Gigspanner unpeel multi-layered second studio album The long awaited second studio album from Peter’s Knight’s gifted, boundary-blurring Gigspanner will be released on May 11, ahead ...
MARTYN JOSEPH’S GLOBAL LET YOURSELF TRUST RAISES NEARLY £50,000 IN FIRST YEAR
Children’s projects in Palestine and Guatemala are first beneficiaries LYT now turns its attentions to a Swansea charity The charitable trust launched by popular Welsh ...
JOE PUG – Windfall (Loose)
Born in Maryland, but now based in Austin after several years in Chicago, Pug was actually ready to call it quits two years ago; burned ...
Tom Russell – The Rose Of Roscrae
Double CD album out 13th April 2015 on Proper Records Tom Russell’s ambitious new double-album The Rose of Roscrae takes a fascinating look at the ...
Fotheringay – Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay
Universal Music Catalogue: March 30th 2015 Universal Music catalogue is pleased to announce the release of the definitive Fotheringay collection, Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay, ...
BELLA HARDY – With The Dawn (Noe Records NOE08)
Like Songs Lost And Stolen, Bella Hardy’s new album is a set of her own songs. However, With The Dawn has none of the folkiness ...
ALLAN YN Y FAN – NOW WE ARE SIX!
Leading Welsh band Allan Yn Y Fan are delighted to announce their new six piece line-up and touring plans for 2015. In their first line-up ...
RICH McMAHON – Songs Of Exile, Love & Dissent (Knotted Oak Productions KOAK006)
The name of Gerry Diver on an album will always provoke a reaction. I have to say that sometimes it is one of bemusement, other ...
Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Sinead O’Connor, and more, feature on PAUL BRADY: THE VICAR STREET SESSIONS VOLUME 1
Proper Records, April 27th Take a veritable galaxy of stars...Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor, Ronan Keating, Curtis Stigers, Gavin Friday & Maurice ...
Tom Kitching – new album and tour
Interloper - out now Top flight fiddler Tom Kitching, a former BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist, is the man behind one of the ...
ALLISON LUPTON – Half My Heart (Learig LM003)
There is refreshing sense of innocence about this album and I hope Allison won’t mind me saying so, given that she’s a seasoned professional, but ...
New Download Release by The American Spirit with Featured Track
From the new album: Season of Violence or Mourning, Protest & The Birth of Bishop Killborne Gabriel Strycharz met Adam Morgan in Santa Barbara in 2004 ...
David Dee Moore – The New EP, Burst
Released today on iTunes/Amazon and selected Digital Stores David Dee Moore's New EP Burst is available for download on Monday March 2nd 2015. It contains ...
Robin Adams – new album and single
New single - 'Holy Smoke' The Garden, the fourth studio album from Glaswegian acoustic performer Robin Adams, most certainly has a 19th century aesthetic throughout ...
ALLISON MOORER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
DOWN TO BELIEVING RELEASED THROUGH PROPER RECORDS, MARCH 16TH 2015 The Academy and Grammy Award nominated singer-songwriter Allison Moorer is set to release her Proper ...
THE LOST ART – The Lost Art (own label)
I’m beginning to think that this will be a year when a whole lot of musical rules are going to be broken. Actually The Lost ...
DAVID GRUBB – High Rise (Shake‘Um’Dud SUD001)
Traditional folk meets mood music and jazz with found sound and a few other things in an album I’m still trying to categorise. David Grubb ...
AROOJ AFTAB – Bird Under Water (own label)
“World Ambient Music” is not a label calculated to set the pulse racing and it has been applied – or perhaps misapplied - to this ...
The F Spot Femmes Fatales
Strong, sensuous, fascinating and feminine, this compilation of ten compelling self penned songs from women is being released on Folkstock Records on International Womens' Day ...
DARREN BLACK – Lord Abergavenny’s Hills (own label DBCD004)
Darren Black is well-known in these parts: a musician who has paid more than enough dues to merit some real recognition. I’ve heard him in ...
BRIDGET ST JOHN – DANDELION ALBUMS AND BBC COLLECTION (CHERRY RED RECORDS CRCDMBOX 17)
Often described as obscure yet she worked with John Martyn, Mike Oldfield, Kevin Ayers, and Mike Chapman, championed by John Peel (as the leading female ...
Asleep at the Wheel – Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (Proper)
Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson, George Strait, and Lyle Lovett are just some of the guest artists on Asleep At The Wheel’s soon-to-be-released album ...
CHIP TAYLOR – The Little Prayers Trilogy (Trainwreck)
Ask the average person who Chip Taylor is and, if they’ve heard of him at all, most will likely know him as the writer of ...
WES MCGHEE – Bead Mountain, Bad Roads & Borders (Terrapin TRP3CD1714)
Born in Leicestershire, following a seven year contractual battle with a record company that did not warm to his notion of fusing psychedelic rock and ...
The April Maze – new single and album
THE APRIL MAZE’S MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW STUDIO ALBUM: Sleeping Storm Released 4th May 2015 by MGM. Beloved indie duo The April Maze launch 2015 with ...
ZERVAS & PEPPER – Abstract Heart (Zerodeo Records BOB020)
The songs on the new album Abstract Heart by Welsh duo Zervas and Pepper are a modern-day mix of Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, Tom ...
Dan Walsh: new album – Incidents & Accidents
Released March 16th on Rooksmere Records Incidents & Accidents is the highly anticipated follow up to Dan Walsh’s critically acclaimed Same But Different album release ...
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES – Terraplane (New West)
Taking its title from the 1930s classic car that also lent its name to Robert Johnson’s ‘Terraplane Blues’, Earle’s 16th studio album sees him and ...
THE JELLYMAN’S DAUGHTER – The Jellyman’s Daughter (own label)
The Jellyman’s Daughter is a duo comprised of Emily Kelly on guitar and vocals and Graham Coe on cello and vocals. Jenny Hill (double bass), ...
GRETCHEN PETERS – Blackbirds (Scarlet Letter Records/Proper PRPCD124P)
One of last year’s finest albums was Ben Glover’s ‘Atlantic’, and one the finest tracks on that was ‘Blackbirds’, a southern gothic tale of an ...
A personal message from Daevid Allen of Gong…
Hello you Kookaburras, OK so I have had my PET-CAT scans (which is essentially a full body viewing gallery for cancer specialists, ) and so ...
THE UNTHANKS – Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser Music RRM013)
Not exactly the sort of album to put to get the party going, the first new studio release by the quintet in four years carries ...
BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
The nominees for this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards have today been announced by Mark Radcliffe on The Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark ...
DAN WEBSTER- The Tin Man (Paper Plane Records PPR1501)
Dan Webster is a singer/songwriter/guitarist with an eclectic taste in musical styles which he employs with great skill on his third album, The Tin Man ...
Celtus Photo Gallery
These pictures have been taken from many sources. The majority were taken by our photographer, Clicker and myself back in 2000 & 2001. Thanks must also ...
ESMÉ PATTERSON – Woman To Woman (XtraMile)
The answer song is hardly a new idea, examples date back to the 40s although the form was most popular during the 50s and 60s ...
HANNAH SANDERS – Charms Against Sorrow (Sungrazing Records SGR001)
Hailing from Norwich, Sanders came to folk early, singing with her a capella family group, The Dunns, as a teenager before briefly putting music to ...
IAN CARR & THE VARIOUS ARTISTS – Who He? (Reveal Records REVEAL046CDX)
Ian Carr is, as I’m sure you know, the guitarist who has been heard mostly on other people’s records; such names as Kathryn Tickell, Kate ...
FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Myths & Heroes (Matty Grooves Records MGCD053)
Back in the late ‘60s, Fairport Convention fit right into – some would say co-created - the whole Summer of Love music scene with its ...
KENNETH J NASH – The Fall Of Eden (Old Hotel Records)
Kenneth J Nash’s fourth album is a slow-burning affair, in keeping with his world-weary demeanour. It’s not just the structure of the album but of ...
GRACE GRIFFITH – Passing Through (Blix Street Records G2-10108)
When the Maryland singer was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease in 1998, it cut short a career that, as well as working as a physical ...
Hannah Sanders – debut album
Charms Against Sorrow is the brand new début album from singer Hannah Sanders. A charismatic and distinctive vocalist, Hannah has already begun attracting critical attention ...
Steve Knightley plays charity gig in Newton St Cyres for Devon Air Ambulance – 15th January 2015
A frosty night in mid January at Newton St Cyres Village Hall was the destination for over 120 people who were going to see celebrated ...
Nick Harris – new single and album
Nick Harris premiered his new single 'Calm Your Demons' with Folk Radio UK. ‘Calm Your Demons’ is evidence of Harris’ progression, and captivates the sound ...
Ex-Rooney guitarist Taylor Locke’s debut solo video, featuring “Couch Car” on the streets of Los Angeles
Watch Taylor Locke shave, play tennis and be chased by naked women - and more! - whilst piloting his couch around the streets and sidewalks ...
Happy Birthday to Ashley Hutchings – The Guv’nor
Ashley Hutchings, the man often referred to as The Guv'nor', who has become synonymous with the creation of the folkrock music genre in the 1960s ...
Thea & The Wild stream album highlight ‘Mourning Song’
Despite her young age, Thea Glenton Raknes is already a name in the Norwegian music industry. She has gained experience as a songwriter, lyricist, frontwoman, ...
BRANT CROUCHER – Blanco County Lights (White Cat)
Texas to the core, Croucher was born in Houston, grew up in Dallas and spent valuable years in both Nashville and Austin, all of which ...
Hoven Droven – new live album
Legendary Swedish folk rockers Hoven Droven are about to release a new live album. The last live album from the band, Jumping At The Cedar, ...
Joe Pug – new album: Windfall
RELEASED ON 9th MARCH 2015 ON LOOSE MUSIC Hear First Track 'If Still It Can't Be Found' Ft. Pat Sansone From Wilco Out On 19th ...
MARTIN CALLINGHAM – Tonight, We All Swim Free (Folkwit F0120)
It has been a long wait but here at last is Martin Callingham’s debut solo album. For those unfamiliar with the name, Martin was the ...
KINGS OF THE SOUTH SEAS – Kings Of The South Seas (D.Wink DWINK CD12)
You may have strong views about the whaling industry and when it comes to the 21st century model I’d agree with you. But when it ...
Multi-award winning American vocalist Grace Griffith defies advanced Parkinson’s Disease to release first album of new material in 8 years.
Passing Through released 26th January 2015 on Blix Street Records "Grace's album is so good it almost brought me to tears." Emmylou Harris After years ...
JIM BOYES – Sensations Of A Wound (No Masters NMCD44)
Robert Riby Boyes from Scarborough was known to his family as Croppie. Like so many of his generation he was called upon to fight for ...
Findlay Napier – new album
VIP VERY INTERESTING PERSONS on Cheerygroove Records CHEERY002 There are many who find themselves described as stalwarts, some for the rugged determination to keep slogging ...
Smithsonian Folkways release 5-Disc Set Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection on February 24
BOX SET INCLUDES 108 TRACKS, 16 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS, RARE PHOTOS + 140-PG LARGE-FORMAT BOOK Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is proud to present Lead Belly: The ...
Martin Callingham releases debut album
Martin Callingham will release his debut solo album Tonight, We All Swim Free on 16th February via Folkwit Records. Recorded at Bristol’s legendary Toybox Studios, ...
I DRAW SLOW – White Wave Chapel (own label)
White Wave Chapel is the third album from Dublin-based quintet I Draw Slow, a band that I haven’t come across before probably because, not unreasonably, ...
Katzenjammer – Lady Grey
New single from the upcoming album Rockland Single and album UK release March 2nd on Propeller Recordings Norwegian band Katzenjammer gear up to release ‘Lady ...
DARIA KULESH – Eternal Child (Folkstock)
Shortly after I met Kara a cousin, not noted for her interest in folk music, mentioned that she’d heard them at a village fete and ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – The Eve Folk Recordings (RPM/Cherry Red Records, Retro D957)
It’s not often that a double CD, rather than box-set, provides insight into a crucial historical moment. Thanks to Cherry Red’s broad field-lens, the diverse ...
Jon Cleave and The Oggymen moonlight as Cornish wreckers in new single
The Changing Room will release a new single `Wreckers' on 5th January. The first single from the band's eagerly anticipated debut album, the song features ...
Butch Walker: 7th Studio Album Afraid Of Ghosts produced by Ryan Adams
Released February 2nd via Lojinx in Europe Butch Walker has announced his highly anticipated seventh full-length album Afraid Of Ghosts, out February 3 via Lojinx ...
Grammy Award-Winner Susan McKeown Releases New Album ‘Belong’
The Irish-born singer, who spent half her life in the States, has finally come home with an exploration of American roots-derived music that delves deeply ...
The Men They Couldn’t Hang – THE DEFIANT – new album out now
The revered British folk punk group The Men They Couldn’t Hang will see out their 30th anniversary campaign with a return visit to Shepherd’s Bush ...
Jorma Kaukonen announces new album
The Legendary Guitarist and Songwriter Announces the release of a new studio album, Ain't In No Hurry Red House Records is proud to announce a ...
Krista Detor – Awake The Voice Download
Krista Detor’s solo albums have reached national and international prominence, including #1 on the Euro-Americana Chart, and placement within the top 10 of the U.S ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Cynefin Cae Gwyn (Cae Gwyn Records – download)
Cae Gwyn Records is a small independent record label run by the enterprising Dan Amor whose Rainhill Trials was a delightful breath of fresh air ...
BBC Performing Arts Fellowship recipient announced
Traditional singer Rosie Hood has been awarded a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship to work with the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Under the scheme, ...
Open String Department: new album, Fringe Music
Imagine if Miles Davis had grown up in the middle of Kentucky, where the high school marching band was a bluegrass band! Or picture that ...
The Vagaband: new album
The Vagaband have released Medicine for the Soul on their own label Eggsong Recordings. The self-produced title is the follow-up to their much praised debut ...
DANIEL MEADE – Keep Right Away (From The Top Records)
A country/blues/rocker from Glasgow, Daniel Meade made a huge impression with his debut album, As Good As Bad Can Be in 2013. So much so ...
Fairport Convention’s Dave Pegg Talks Myths and Heroes
Fairport Convention’s Dave Pegg is frustrated that the tendon on his left hand – which he cut during an accident last year -- hasn’t completely ...
Jim Boyes With Belinda O’Hooley: Sensations Of A Wound
From his home town of Scarborough in Yorkshire, Robert Riby Boyes’ First War journeys took him to the Western Front in France, to Belgium and ...
ALEX HIGHTON UNVEILS NEW VIDEO FOR ‘YOU DON’T OWN THIS LIFE’
Alex Highton - New Album - ‘Nobody Knows Anything’ Out December 8th on Gare Du Nord It’s not the second album that’s difficult. Melodies, harmonies ...
Cynefin Cae Gwyn (various artists)
Out now on Cae Gwyn Records Free download: www.recordiaucaegwyn.com Introducing Cynefin Cae Gwyn, a compilation album of artists on the Cae Gwyn Records label. The ...
Ally McErlaine reunited with his lost guitar
In July, Ally McErlaine - guitarist with Texas and Red Sky July - appealed for help to find his lost guitar, a mid-1970s Gibson ES ...
Jenny Gillespie’s new album Chamma out now via Narooma Records
After writing for a year and coming up with ten or so songs, thinking she wanted to record live in the studio with session musicians ...
SHEILA MAC DONALD – Tangle Of Trees (own label)
Tangle Of Trees is the third album by New England singer-songwriter Sheila MacDonald and, I suspect, the first to be made generally available in Europe ...
Esmé Patterson – new single and album
‘The Glow’ is the first track to be made available from a unique concept album by acclaimed US singer/songwriter and new signing to Xtra Mile ...
DAVID HUGHES – Songs Of Integrity (The Folk Corporation TFCCD2012)
David Hughes is something of a rebel which should endear him to me but, to be honest, I’ve always been a bit Marmite about him ...
WOOKALILY – All The Waiting While (One-A-Chord OACRW001)
I have no idea from whence the name comes, but the band are an all-female Belfast outfit at the vanguard of the bluegrass revival playing ...
AMY GODDARD – Burn & Glow ( Incantus Media)
I tend to approach new singer-songwriters warily. After all, it’s quite something to put your deepest thoughts out there for public consumption and I may ...
THE ALBION CHRISTMAS BAND – One For The Road: Live in Concert (Rooksmere RRCD114)
And the Christmas collections keep coming, this one courtesy of Santa Ashley Hutchings and his festive troupe’s first live album, neatly coinciding with their annual ...
Matt Woosey – new album, Wildest Dreams
Wildest Dreams is Matt Woosey’s seventh full length release since 2008. This album is similar to his previous material in that it contains a certain ...
J.P.BEAN – Singing From The Floor: A History of British Folk Clubs
Faber & Faber ISBN 978-0-571-30545-2 Musical scenes are rich tapestries that many of us have added our own stitches to as well as sitting back ...
Judith Owen & Harry Shearer – ‘Christmas With The Devil’
Raising funds for SANE Welsh singer/ songwriter Judith Owen and her actor/ humourist husband Harry Shearer have combined their talents to recreate the Spinal Tap ...
Gretchen Peters announces new album
Fresh off her induction into the prestigious Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Gretchen Peters has confirmed the 9th February release of her new album Blackbirds ...
The Daydream Club – Spotify Curated Playlist Leads To Mass Demand
One Million Plays in Two Weeks - Unsigned, With No Paid Support Leicester based The Daydream Club are Adam Pickering and Paula Walker: an unsigned, ...
JOHN MARTYN – Remembering John Martyn (Secret SECDDO54)
In spite of the title suggesting a tribute by admiring friends, this is a worthy addition to the ever-growing archive releases complementing near two dozen ...
Geppetto And The Whales – debut album from Belgian band
Geppetto And The Whales are an indie, psychedelic, folk, pop, rock band from Belgium. Something of a big deal over there, they recently released their ...
The Alt – Irish supergroup releases debut album
The beautiful mountain Knocknarea in Ireland’s County Sligo is said to be the final resting place of the ancient Irish warrior-queen Maeve. The ‘Alt’ is ...
Boo Hewerdine – retrospective album and tour dates
Much loved English songwriter Boo Hewerdine releases his first career retrospective My Name In The Brackets (The Best Of Boo Hewerdine & The Bible) on ...
FRONT COUNTRY – Sake Of The Sound (Own Label)
There are exciting things happening in the world of Americana right now, not least the debut album from the sextet from California called Front Country ...
DAVE COUSINS: Exorcising Ghosts: Strawbs & Other Lives
Witchwood Media Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-9565887-1-5 What would have happened if Strawbs had not left A&M in the mid-70s? Just one of many questions that you ...
Merry Hell – news from The Ghost In Our House tour
The first leg of the “Ghost In Our House Tour” is behind us and we are now busy rehearsing for the forthcoming acoustic leg. For ...
Joyce The Librarian frontman announces solo album
Martin Callingham will release his debut solo album Tonight, We All Swim Free on 16th February via Folkwit Records. Recorded at Bristol’s legendary Toybox Studios, ...
The Black Feathers – ‘Strangers We Meet’ video
Americana Folk duo The Black Feathers are excited to announce that their video 'Strangers We Meet' is now available to watch online. This follows the ...
Dan Whitehouse – new album
New album, Raw State, released 1 December 2014 Singer-songwriter DAN WHITEHOUSE continues his upward climb with the release of his third album, Raw State. Released ...
Hayseed Dixie new album – Hair Down To My Grass
Hayseed Dixie began in the summer of 2000 in the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of ...
Emily Barker re-releases 2007 debut album
Emily Barker – Photos.Fires.Fables. Out 8th December Emily Barker’s first solo album, originally released in 2007, has been repackaged in a beautiful new gatefold card ...
Brett Dennen – new album
Northern California native Brett Dennen is pleased to announce details of his upcoming headline London show. Having performed at London’s Borderline earlier this year, the ...
ST. AGNES FOUNTAIN – Christmas Is Not Far Away (Cuppity Records CUP007)
It's been 14-plus years since Fairport Convention’s chief songwriter, co-lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie, songwriter-musician and all-around renaissance man David Hughes, and Chris While ...
HEG & THE WOLF CHORUS – A Tale Of Sailors (own label)
After two singles Heg & The Wolf Chorus stretch out to an EP. The band: Heg Brignall, who writes the songs, Stephanie Taylor, Richie Dobson, ...
The Hut People – new album
Last month saw the highly anticipated release of Cabinet Of Curiosities, the new studio album from the eclectic folk/world duo The Hut People. To best ...
Helghyer releases second EP
Multi-instrumentalist Helghyer (pronounced Hell-hear) is back with her unique, rich voice as succulent as t-bone steak or duck egg custard and is set to release ...
Bristol Folk band Apple of My Eye are set to sail folk scene with new album Seven Tides
Exciting and energetic contemporary folk band, Apple Of My Eye announce release of new album Seven Tides, due out 1st December. Beautifully arranged epic songs ...
THOMPSON – Family (Fantasy FAN36392)
After last year’s Linda Thompson album saw a family gathering of sorts, in as much as her children, Teddy and Kami, son-in-law James, grandson Zak ...
Ruu Campbell – new single and album re-release
Debut album Hearsong re-released on December 8th New single 'Mathereal' released December 1st Having signed a major label deal with Dreamworks at 15, spent 2 years working with Leftfield, ...
FRASER ANDERSON – Little Glass Box (Membran 233896)
Recorded in the Languedoc region of France and originally released four years ago, this has hitherto largely only been available at Anderson’s live shows; however, ...
KATE RUSBY – Ghost (Pure PRCD38)
An album by unquestionably my favourite female voice in contemporary folk (it’s those homely, but somehow also sexy Barnsley vowels) and a version of ‘Martin ...
REG MEUROSS: England Green & England Grey (Hatsongs)
On this album it’s the historical material where Reg Meuross’s songwriting is particularly fascinating. His account of how the Suffragette Emily Davison hid in a ...
STRAWBS – Prognostic (Witchwood WMCD 2056)
Welcome to the Strawbs with attitude! This is not the stripped down acoustic folk that some may be familiar with. This is a powerhouse of ...
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