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).
BELLE PLAINE – Malice, Mercy, Grief And Wrath (own label)
Sharing her name with the Minnesota city that translates as ‘beautiful prairie’. raised in a remote Saskatchewan town of just 45 people, it’s understandable that ...
Read More
Read More
STEVIE DUNNE – Live At The Crosskeys Inn (own label SDB003)
Ireland is full of fine musicians who, unlike prophets, are honoured in their own country but not so much elsewhere. Stevie Dunne is one such ...
Read More
Read More
MICHELLE LEWIS – All That’s Left (own label)
Based in L.A., Lewis explores the softer edges of folk-pop Americana, her songs suffused with sadness and melancholy, dealing with loss and longing, delivered in ...
Read More
Read More
Marianne Faithfull announces new solo album
Negative Capability is the 21st album by Marianne Faithfull and the most emotionally powerful of her 54-year recording career. Facing down arthritis and bolstered by ...
Read More
Read More
TOM PETTY AND BOB DYLAN – New York 1986 (Rox Vox RV2CD2128)
In the mid-80s and in the midst of his own musical wasteland, Bob Dylan went down a number of different angles in a bid to ...
Read More
Read More
KITTY MACFARLANE – Namer Of Clouds (Navigator Records, NAVIGATOR104)
Given the praise heaped on Kitty Macfarlane’s 2016 EP, Tide & Time, expectations are understandably high for her first full-length album release, Namer Of Clouds ...
Read More
Read More
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Evening Machines (Dualtone Records)
Evening Machines was released on October 5th, Isakov’s fifth album. Isakov is a full time farmer in Colorado, who tends to his music career in ...
Read More
Read More
PETE SEEGER BIG BILL BROONZY – Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University (Echoes ECHO2CD2077)
Another recording from the vaults is Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy from the Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, 1956 – a ...
Read More
Read More
LONGSTAY – Calling Me Home (Goldrush Records, GOLDCD017)
Calling Me Home is the debut album from Longstay, a precocious Perth quintet, still with an average age of only 17 - and with four ...
Read More
Read More
ANNE MARIE ALMEDAL – Lightshadow (VMP 18/012 CD)
Anne Marie Almedal is a Norwegian singer and composer whose album, Lightshadow, is now on release. Almedal, was the lead singer of the band Velvet ...
Read More
Read More
BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND – 1974 Tour Live (Rox Vox RV3CD2137)
1974 Tour Live is a pretty self-explanatory title, but if you’re still curious for anything else other than the obvious, it is a three disc ...
Read More
Read More
The Great British Folk Festival 2018
Hi-de-Hi! Hi-De-Ho! to all the team at The Great British Folk Festival 2018 at the Butlin's Skegness resort. Yep, its that time of the year ...
Read More
Read More
Andy White tours reissued Rave On
“Andy White, Belfast born and Belfast bred, first picked up a guitar when he was thirteen. It was blocking up the hallway. He started strumming ...
Read More
Read More
Ray Cooper announces winter tour
Former Oysterband man Ray Cooper is touring the UK solo in November as well as in February 2019 A singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist he currently ...
Read More
Read More
LUKA BLOOM – Sometimes I Fly… (MIG MIG 02102 CD)
This album was recorded by Radio Bremen in 2001. Luka Bloom is big in Germany; he’s big in Ireland naturally but for some unfathomable reason ...
Read More
Read More
Catty Pearson releases debut EP
London singer-songwriter Catty Pearson, with her musical roots planted in folk, country and blues and her head set on unravelling some of the confusion she feels in ...
Read More
Read More
THE SALTS – Brave (Braccan Records BRCD9001)
The Salts perform shanties but not quite in the way you might expect. They are five seasoned musicians with a remarkable list of credits to ...
Read More
Read More
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Come Hell Or High Water (Gypsy Eyes Music)
If you feel that ‘Southern folk golem’ Holcombe’s croaky roll-up rasp suggests he’s been shovelling coal dust of his cereals and makes Tom Waits sound ...
Read More
Read More
Derbyshire stars at Derby Folk Festival
Derbyshire is famous for many things to those in the know, but for the casual mainstream music fan the county that gave the world Rolls-Royce ...
Read More
Read More
Yvonne Lyon announces new album with Stewart and Carol Henderson
Vesper Sky is a stunning and unique collection of songs and poems, written and performed by Stewart Henderson, Yvonne Lyon and Carol Henderson. Singer/songwriter Yvonne ...
Read More
Read More
Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen announce new album
As with their previous three albums, Canadian-American Roots-Folk duo Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen ponder contemporary subject matter with vintage sensibility in their fourth release, Driving ...
Read More
Read More
J.P. HARRIS – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing (Free Dirt DIRT-CD-0090)
You might be wondering if J.P. Harris looks anything like the cover picture. Well, I can’t speak for all the tattoos but, yes, that’s pretty ...
Read More
Read More
SINGLES BAR 34 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Tablelands is the third of the trilogy of EPs by INDIA ELECTRIC CO. that began in the city with EC1M and ends somewhere hot, red ...
Read More
Read More
ETHAN HANNA – Welcome To The Batlands (Tin Man Heart)
Ethan Hanna is from Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He’s been around for while, paying his dues as a soloist and in bands, but Welcome To The ...
Read More
Read More
RIBBON ROAD – Paper Dolls (Shipyard RRD011)
The follow-up to Our Streets Are Numbered, one of my favourite albums of 2016, the Heslop family, songwriter Brenda, husband Geoff and daughter Jill, here ...
Read More
Read More
Breabach announce new album and tour dates
Frenzy of the Meeting is the latest release from multi award-winning Scottish folk band Breabach. Continuing to build on the ideas and experimentation from their ...
Read More
Read More
TOWN MOUNTAIN – New Freedom Blues (own label)
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, New Freedom Blues is the quintet’s sixth studio album which, while their feet are still firmly planted in the bluegrass pastures, ...
Read More
Read More
THE BETTERDAYS – Backlash (NTB Records CD 1004)
I realise that this isn’t our usual fare but it’s such a gem that we couldn’t resist. The cover shows The Betterdays from Plymouth in ...
Read More
Read More
ANTOINE & OWENA – Hands, Hearts & Hangings (own label)
We receive a lot of unsolicited albums, often debuts from new artists. Some we may gloss over; others we play more than once. So it ...
Read More
Read More
Ewan Macintyre Band announce new album
In promotion of Ewan’s forthcoming album Road Junkie, Ewan and the band will be doing a series of tours throughout November in Scotland, England, Wales, ...
Read More
Read More
Stevie Dunne releases live album
Stevie Dunne is regarded as one of Ireland’s finest banjo players. Hailing from the small fishing port of Clogherhead in County Louth, Stevie now resides ...
Read More
Read More
CHRIS CLEVERLEY TRIO – Red Lion Folk Club, Kings Heath, Birmingham
Already well-established as a charismatic performer on the folk circuit and a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter as well as hugely accomplished guitarist, this hometown gig, the ...
Read More
Read More
GILMORE & ROBERTS – A Problem Of Our Kind (GR! GRR08)
Gilmore & Roberts are Katriona Gilmore (vocals, fiddle, viola, B3 organ and mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (vocals, guitar, percussion). Their album A Problem Of Our ...
Read More
Read More
The Urban Folk Quartet announce autumn tour dates
The Urban Folk Quartet, one of the most exciting and vibrant bands on the UK acoustic/ roots scene, are heading back out on the road ...
Read More
Read More
DOLPHIN BOY – The Highland Swing (Skye Records SCRCX005)
There is story behind this album although I’m not sure I fully understand it. Once upon a time DJ Andy Dolphin, aka Dolphin Boy, was ...
Read More
Read More
YOUNG WATERS – Young Waters (own label YW1)
Now trading under a rather more attractive moniker (borrowed from a Scottish Child Ballad) than their previous appellation as Snufkin, guitarist Theo Passingham and percussionist ...
Read More
Read More
EDDI READER – Cavalier (Reveal 077CDX)
Forty years into her career, Reader’s 11th solo studio album, Cavalier, continues the recent trend of mixing original and traditional material with, naturally, something from ...
Read More
Read More
SLOW MOVING CLOUDS – Starfall (own label SMC003)
Dublin based trio Slow Moving Clouds blend Irish and Nordic traditions with modern techniques and influences to make music that might be described as “ambient” ...
Read More
Read More
ANNIE DRESSNER – Broken Into Pieces
Like Kurt Russell in 'Escape from New York', Annie Dressner has legged it as well and made it over here to fair Albion even without ...
Read More
Read More
JIMMY LaFAVE – Peace Town (Music Road Records MRR CD030)
A leading light of the Red Dirt country movement, LaFave succumbed to cancer last year, but not before laying down a 100 or so recordings ...
Read More
Read More
TUMBLING SOULS –Between the Dream And The Truth (Wee Studio Records WSTTS01)
The debut album from the country and bluegrass-influenced Hebridean eight-piece fronted by Willie Campbell, Between The Truth And The Dream has a firm emphasis on ...
Read More
Read More
JOHN SMITH – Hummingbird (Commoner COMM01CD)
John Smith is a name I’ve been circling around for some time without actually hearing him so I was delighted when his new album, Hummingbird, ...
Read More
Read More
SOLASTA – A Cure For The Curious (own label SLSTA18)
A Cure For The Curious is the debut album by the newest trio aiming to take folk music in new directions. Solasta are Elizabeth Flett; ...
Read More
Read More
THE LARK AND THE LOON – Homestead Hands (own label)
She’s the lark and he’s the loon and The Lark And The Loon are multi-instrumental husband and wife duo Jeff Rolfzen and Rocky Steen-Rolfzen. Homestead ...
Read More
Read More
PHIL DOLEMAN – Skin & Bones
In recent years the ukulele has become increasingly prominent in my life as a music teacher and workshop organiser, so it was with a degree ...
Read More
Read More
MAWKIN – Down Among The Dead Men (Good Form Records MKN005)
I was thinking that it was rather too long since I’d heard anything from Mawkin when David Delarre got in touch to ask if I’d ...
Read More
Read More
Katie Spencer – in praise of live music
Saturday night I find myself in a church in a small village. This settlement is so tiny that to describe it as a small hamlet ...
Read More
Read More
IAIN THOMSON AND MARC DUFF – No Borders (own label IAT 003)
Iain Thomson is a singer-songwriter brought up in Dumfries who works regularly as a duo with Marc Duff who plays bouzouki, pipes, piano and whistles ...
Read More
Read More
NATHAN BELL – Loves Bones And Stars, Love’s Bones And Stars (Angry Stick Recording Company)
In case you’re wondering, the title of the album is correct. Loves Bones And Stars, Love’s Bones And Stars is due for release on September ...
Read More
Read More
Michael Chapman – autumn tour dates
Legendary guitarist and songwriter Michael Chapman first turned professional more than 50 years ago and he concludes another busy year of recording and playing concerts ...
Read More
Read More
Introducing Wolf & Clover
We are contacted by musicians from all over the world and recently Matthew McCabe of the band Wolf & Clover got in touch to send ...
Read More
Read More
Neil Brophy Band announce new single and album
Neil Brophy Band, based in Copenhagen but coming from England, Scotland & Denmark, are a Celtic folk rock band championed by Steve Lamacq, whom will ...
Read More
Read More
Exploring Folklore at Halsway Manor
Venue website: www.halswaymanor.org.uk ...
Read More
Read More
RACHEL NEWTON – West (Shadowside SHADOW03)
I had better confess that I’m a bit of a fan of Rachel Newton. The last time I heard her perform live she demonstrated how ...
Read More
Read More
Take Flight with Afro Celt Sound System
Brand new album, Flight – with major UK tour - November 2018 With album sales now topping one and a half million and two Grammy ...
Read More
Read More
RICHARD DURRANT – Stringhenge (Own Label, TheBurningDeck003CD)
JS Bach’s elaborate baroque isn’t necessarily folk’s obvious partner, but for guitarist Richard Durrant they are simply links in a lengthy musical chain. In his ...
Read More
Read More
A DIFFERENT THREAD – On A Whim (own label)
Originally a duo comprising Staffordshire’s Robert Jackson and North Yorkshire classical cellist Isaac Collier, last year they were joined by North Carolina songwriter and fiddle ...
Read More
Read More
NORTHERN FLYWAY – Northern Flyway (Hudson Records, HUD013)
This eponymous album from Northern Flyway is a beautiful addition to a rapidly growing body of music prominently featuring birdsong. Northern Flyway is Jenny Sturgeon ...
Read More
Read More
SINGLES BAR 33 A round-up of recent EPs and singles
BURNING SALT – Hannah Hull (vocals, guitar), Bobby Williams (electric guitar) and John Parker (double bass) – base their music on Hannah's distinctive voice and ...
Read More
Read More
DUSTER BENNETT – The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (Floating World FLOATM6367)
Younger readers may need a heads up about Duster Bennett but a title like The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions should pique anyone’s interest. Duster was ...
Read More
Read More
TIA McGRAFF – Stubborn In My Blood (Bandana)
Her first full-length release since 2015 (though there was an EP last year), Stubborn In My Blood is McGraff’s seventh album and again provides ample ...
Read More
Read More
Annie Dressner announces second album
Annie Dressner was born and raised in New York City where she cut her teeth on the busy acoustic music scene, appearing regularly at such ...
Read More
Read More
Larkin Poe announce new album and European tour dates
Larkin Poe have announced details of their new album Venom & Faith, to be released November 9. The Nashville-based sister duo have also announced a ...
Read More
Read More
Eddi Reader announces new album and October tour dates
Eddi Reader announces her brand new studio album Cavalier released worldwide on September 28 by Reveal Records. Featuring sixteen songs, including recently performed live favourites ...
Read More
Read More
DAVID MILTON – Songs From The Bell Man (Story Records Strec1801)
Produced by and featuring Ange Hardy, this is the debut album by an affable chap from her home town of Watchet in Somerset who, in ...
Read More
Read More
John Smith – new album and tour dates
John Smith talks about Hummingbird Ever since my teenage epiphany at the altar of folk music, hearing Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn for the ...
Read More
Read More
CHRIS THOMAS – Bound To The Ocean (own label)
Formerly part of a Pink Floyd tribute show, the soft-voiced Devon-based singer-songwriter has being flying solo since 2013, Bound To The Ocean being his debut album ...
Read More
Read More
GRYPHON – ReInvention (own label GRIFCD01)
It has been a long time. Gryphon broke up in 1977 after recording Treason, which a lot of people seem to like but which I ...
Read More
Read More
JIMMY ALDRIDGE & SID GOLDSMITH – Many A Thousand (MATRAI8001)
Rising stars of the UK acoustic scene, Aldridge and Goldsmith are what I guess those outside the fraternity would call finger in the ear folk ...
Read More
Read More
Iain Thomson announces new album with Marc Duff
Iain Thomson along with long-time friend and musician Marc Duff will release a new album entitled No Borders. No Borders includes eleven new self-penned songs ...
Read More
Read More
Guitar virtuoso Richard Durrant – new album and tour dates
In his latest offering composer and guitar virtuoso Richard Durrant is once again living on the folk/classical cusp with the first of these two LPs ...
Read More
Read More
Caro Emerald announces October tour dates
Caro Emerald will return to Camden’s Jazz Café, the venue where she played her first UK show on August 25th 2011. This special, intimate show ...
Read More
Read More
RICHARD THOMPSON – 13 Rivers (Proper Records PRPCD150)
Following three excursions into his back catalogue in a solo acoustic format, Richard Thompson is back doing the other thing he does best. Electric guitar ...
Read More
Read More
Folking.com Cropredy Interviews 2018
Paul Johnson introduces this years interviews... Dave Pegg - Cropredy 2018 The Folking.com 2018 Dave Pegg Interview from Cropredy Chris Leslie - Cropredy 2018 The ...
Read More
Read More
MIDNIGHT SKYRACER talk to Folking.com backstage at Cropredy 2018
Paul Johnson and Darren Beech catch up with Midnight Skyracer backstage at this years Fairport's Cropredy Convention. The interview took place on the Friday afternoon after their fantastic ...
Read More
Read More
NIAMH VARIAN-BARRY – Wings (own label NVB001)
Sometimes you just want to snuggle down and be wrapped in the voice you’re listening to. Niamh Varian-Barry has one of those voices. Have a ...
Read More
Read More
GRACE PETRIE – Queer As Folk (own label)
The only time I saw Grace Petrie on stage, I was bowled over. I bought an EP and was impressed by that. Always her own ...
Read More
Read More
Slow Moving Clouds announce their second album
Dublin-based band Slow Moving Clouds combine roots in the Irish and Nordic folk traditions with post-punk drones, baroque strings, and soaring falsetto vocals – creating ...
Read More
Read More
The Shackleton Trio take their new album on tour
Following a busy summer of UK and European Festivals, The Shackleton Trio will be taking their new release on the road. The Shackleton Trio features ...
Read More
Read More
STONE JUNCTION – Could We Start This All Again? (Eris Records SJCD001)
Stone Junction are a trio based in Sussex: Michael Prochak, Dan Lapins and Will Thomson. Between them they play guitar, banjo, accordion, mandolin and whistle ...
Read More
Read More
SKINNER & T’WITCH – Everybody’s Grotty (own label)
In the course of reviewing Skinner & T’Witch’s debut album, Rise, I mused on nominative determinism and wondered whether if Sandra Twitchett had not acquired ...
Read More
Read More
Merry Hell – live dates 2018
Artists' website: www.merryhell.co.uk Here are Merry Hell's live dates for the rest of the year (so far). The chaps are getting around. October: 10th-12th: Costa ...
Read More
Read More
SMITH AND BREWER – Live 16/12/2017 (Own Label)
Riding high on their success in front of their biggest audience to date at Cropredy, as well as playing a host of other festivals, Americana ...
Read More
Read More
Jenny Sturgeon and Inge Thompson announce release of their new project
Humans have always looked to the birds. In mythology, they are carriers of souls, messengers to the gods, our familiars. In ecology, they are our ...
Read More
Read More
Commonalities and heritage explored in brand-new music residency
Musicians and poets from across the UK and Ireland create work inspired by ancient diversity Ten of the UK and Ireland’s finest traditional poets and ...
Read More
Read More
Ethan Hanna announces debut album
Welcome To The Batlands, the debut album from Northern Irish artist Ethan Hanna, will be released on Tin Man Heart records from 5 October 2018 ...
Read More
Read More
HANNAH RARITY – ‘Neath The Gloaming Star (Own Label, HR085NEA)
Winner of 2018’s BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician award, Hannah Rarity, has just successfully crowdsourced her debut album, and it’s exquisitely lovely. ‘Neath The ...
Read More
Read More
BOB COLLUM AND THE WELFARE MOTHERS – Pay Pack And Carry (own label)
Bob Collum hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma but now lives in Essex – actually, we’re beginning to detect a pattern there. His band is Macs Leyton, ...
Read More
Read More
Sarah McQuaid announces tour dates
UK-based singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid is heading out on the road again with a battery of new instruments and a new album that’s been hailed as ...
Read More
Read More
Burning Salt’s “love letter” to Holloway Women’s Prison
Burning Salt – Hannah Hull (vocals, guitar, piano), Bobby Williams (electric guitar) and John Parker (double bass) – base their music on Hannah's distinctive voice ...
Read More
Read More
Will Varley talks to folking.com ahead of Autumn tour
Will Varley is touring the UK again this autumn, with the majority of the shows taking place in seated theatres and venues. Paul Johnson and ...
Read More
Read More
Chris Cleverley unveils his new project
September 2018 sees the launch of a new live outfit from Contemporary Folk songwriter and fingerstyle guitar extraordinaire Chris Cleverley. With an all-star line-up, Chris ...
Read More
Read More
DAN WEBSTER – Devil Sky (Paper Plane PPR1801)
Dan Webster is a British singer-songwriter who has been described as the fusion of folk and country. On his fourth album, Devil Sky, much of ...
Read More
Read More
FAIRYTALE – Autumn’s Crown (Magic Mile Music, MMM41112)
German folk-rockers Fairytale cunningly release their second album, Autumn’s Crown, as the first signs of seasonal change appear. Having already secured the support of some ...
Read More
Read More
DREW MORRISON AND THE DARKWOOD – Electric-Notes Wild (Storm Cloud SCCD002)
Electric-Notes Wild, to be released on September 7th, is the debut album from Drew Morrison And The Darkwood. It follows a well-received EP, Tales of ...
Read More
Read More
Eriska launch debut album
Eriska is a six-piece Glasgow-based folk band established in 2016. The band's line up includes members from the traditional music, jazz, and classical courses at ...
Read More
Read More
Daphne’s Flight talk to Folking.com
Reunited after a 21 year gap in 2017, Daphne’s Flight brings together the talents of five highly acclaimed singer-songwriters: Julie Matthews, Chris While, Melanie Harrold, ...
Read More
Read More
Stone Junction release their debut album
Stone Junction have released their debut album Could We Start This All Again?, replete with the accomplished and varied transatlantic sounds of guitars, mandolin, accordion, ...
Read More
Read More
JENNIFER BELL AND WILSON WALKER – …And So To Bedlam (own label JBWW01)
It isn’t often that a lutenist will send us a CD but Jennifer Bell did just that. Jennifer is a singer-songwriter and, in addition to ...
Read More
Read More
Grace Petrie announces new album and tour
Make way for protest singer, LGBTQ + activist, folk singer, socialist and social commentator Grace Petrie. Smart, witty, a talented lyricist and an electrifying live ...
Read More
Read More
Dan Webster releases new album this month
Dan Webster is described as ‘one of the U.K’s best kept musical secrets and one not to miss!’ and an ‘An insightful lyricist with a ...
Read More
Read More
The Folking.com 2018 Merry Hell Interview from Cropredy Fringe
Paul Johnson and Darren Beech create Merry Hell as they attempt to break the world record for ‘how many folk-rock musicians you can fit round a table ...
Read More
Read More
Ben Somers announces debut solo album
Acclaimed folk and jazz musician Ben Somers releases his brand new album, Poor Stuart on 7 September - a polished and accomplished collection of twelve pieces, ten ...
Read More
Read More
THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS – Òrach (Compass Records 7417172)
Few bands get to celebrate fifty years together – and some of those have taken a breather mid-career – so The Tannahill Weavers have joined ...
Read More
Read More
The Folking.com 2018 Dave Pegg Interview from Cropredy
Paul Johnson and Darren Beech track down Dave Pegg at this year at Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival. The interview gets off to a great start ...
Read More
Read More
THE GLOAMING – Live At The NCH (Real World CD/Vinyl)
It almost goes without saying that Martin Hayes (fiddle) and Dennis Cahill (guitar) have shaped Irish traditional music for the last quarter century and are ...
Read More
Read More
WILL KEATING – Cornwall My Home (Kernow Ow Thre) (Own Label)
As it happens, I'd heard quite a lot of Will Keating's CD Cornwall My Home (Kernow Ow Thre) before a copy came my way, having ...
Read More
Read More
ASSYNT – Road To The North (Garthland Records, GAR001CD)
The trio of musicians who make up Assynt may still only be in their 20s but between them have already amassed a barrowload of nominations ...
Read More
Read More
HILARY SCOTT – Don’t Call Me Angel (Belltown)
Released in the 20th anniversary of her older brother’s death, which saw her take her stage name in his honour, Don’t Call Me Angel is ...
Read More
Read More
The Folking.com 2018 Chris Leslie Interview from Cropredy
It would not be Cropredy without an interview with the ‘Jewel In The Crown’ of the Fairport five, so here are Paul Johnson and Darren ...
Read More
Read More
THE HOT SEATS – Stupid Mountain Too Big
Not only is Stupid Mountain Too Big a great title, but it is also the first album in three years from the Virginia-based Hot Seats ...
Read More
Read More
Introducing Young Waters
Young Waters’ twisted neo-folk is a tapestry of emotionally powerful vocals, stirring harmonies, lyrical strings and finely mastered acoustic guitar. Their exhilarating rhythms and intricate ...
Read More
Read More
DUNCAN McCRONE – Land Of Gold (Greentrax CDTRAX398)
A well-established veteran of the Scottish folk scene, Duncan McCrone returns with Land Of Gold, his fourth solo album, and his first on the esteemed ...
Read More
Read More
MARTIN BARRE – Roads Less Travelled (Garage Records GAR0002)
I don't think I've heard Jethro Tull for decades, but one of the highlights of the band's music was, for me and many others, Martin ...
Read More
Read More
Swedish Celtic punks Sir Reg announce new album
Sir Reg is an energetic six piece from Sweden fronted by Irishman Brendan Sheehy on vocals, who left his home-town of Dublin to come to ...
Read More
Read More
Gryphon announce new album – forty-one years on
Would you believe it? Gryphon are releasing an all-new studio album of especially written, previously unheard material – and this comes all of 41 years ...
Read More
Read More
Karine Polwart announces new album and tour dates
Multi-award winning songwriter and musician, theatre maker and published writer Karine Polwart - six-time winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including 2018 Folk ...
Read More
Read More
NITEWORKS – Air Faìr An Là (Comann Music, CM002)
If the combined words “folk” and “electronica” bring on an attack of the vapours, a lie down with the reviving sal volatile of Niteworks’ second ...
Read More
Read More
Levellers on limited edition coloured vinyl
To celebrate their 30th anniversary, the Levellers have announced the release of a series of limited edition coloured vinyl albums, including the never before released ...
Read More
Read More
The West End Centre unveils its autumn programme
The autumn programme at the West End Centre kicks-off in September with Leveret, a unique collaboration between three of England's finest folk musicians, Andy Cutting, ...
Read More
Read More
RACHAEL McSHANE & THE CARTOGRAPHERS – When All Is Still (Topic TSCD596)
It’s been nine years since Rachael McShane realised her solo debut, the time since then keeping her busy as cellist, fiddler, viola player and singer ...
Read More
Read More
Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham announce major Scottish tour
Together Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of excellence in the world of traditional music. With their musical magic and ...
Read More
Read More
MAIREARAD & ANNA – Farran (Shouty Records SHOUTYCD04)
Farran is the Scots word for the starboard side of a boat and is also Mairearad Green and Anna Massie’s fourth album as a duo ...
Read More
Read More
John Smith unveils debut single from new album
John Smith had just announced the release of his new album Hummingbird. It features appearances from Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls, and will be ...
Read More
Read More
NIALL HANNA – Autumn Winds (own label)
I have to say out the outset that this is rather lovely. Two years ago Niall Hanna received a Young Musician’s Platform Award from the ...
Read More
Read More
DAN JOHNSON – Hemingway (State Fair)
In 1987, when Dan Johnson was just ten, his father, an injured US Air Force veteran, finding his skill set was not transferrable to civilian ...
Read More
Read More
Duster Bennett – complete Blue Horizon recordings set for release
Duster Bennett was one of the most distinctive and unusual artists to emerge from the very productive period of the late 1960s latterly dubbed the ...
Read More
Read More
GREGORY PAGE – A Wild Rose (own label)
His mother lead vocalist London’s first all-girl pop band The Beat-Chics and his uncle Tom Jones’s dummer on ‘What’s New Pussycat’, born in North London ...
Read More
Read More
Tyler Childers – new album and London date
26 year-old Tyler Childers of Lawrence County, Kentucky has announced details of the physical release of Live On Red Barn Radio I & II, out ...
Read More
Read More
JACKIE OATES – The Joy Of Living (ECC Records ECC018)
Jackie Oates’ new album, her seventh, is an intensely personal one with songs spanning four generations of her family from her grandfather to her daughter ...
Read More
Read More
Allan Yn Y Fan release their first single and announce tour dates
Welsh traditional band Allan Yn Y Fan will be celebrating their 22nd year on the road with the release of their first single in September, ...
Read More
Read More
Mairearad and Anna announce their new album
Given that Mairearad grew up by Achnahaird bay and is now living by the sea in Ullapool and Anna is from the village of Fortrose ...
Read More
Read More
THE SHACKLETON TRIO – Fen, Farm And Deadly Water (own label)
The name having slimmed down from The Georgia Shackleton Trio, though still comprising fiddle player, locally accented vocalist and songsmith Georgia alongside guitarist Aaren Bennett ...
Read More
Read More
Hannah Rarity announces debut album
Hannah Rarity - BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2018 - releases her much anticipated debut album Neath The Gloaming Star on 2nd September ...
Read More
Read More
SINGLES BAR 32 A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Named for the Virginia city, but based in Nashville, ROANOKE are a rising Folk Americana five-piece led by guitarist Joey Beesley and Taylor Dupuis, alongside ...
Read More
Read More
TONY WINN – Push And Pull (Freefall FF011D)
Hailing from Essex and while you’ve likely never heard of him, an actor and poet as well as a musician, Winn has sufficient a following ...
Read More
Read More
LETITIA VANSANT – Gut It To The Studs (own label)
Letitia VanSant is an American activist whose first album, Gut It To The Studs, has a UK release date of August 28th. Gut It To ...
Read More
Read More
Seth Lakeman announces new album and tour
Fresh from his whirlwind world tour with rock legend Robert Plant, charismatic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman releases his stunning, ninth solo album The Well-Worn Path ...
Read More
Read More
Martin Stephenson re-records Gladsome, Humour And Blue
There is rarely a dull moment in conversation with Martin Stephenson, but that’s exactly what you’d hope for from someone who’s never stood still during ...
Read More
Read More
PHILIP MARINO – Chasing Ghosts (own label)
Philip Marino released his fourth CD, Chasing Ghosts, on July 27th. Marino is an American singer-songwriter who lives in Essex in the UK. In style, ...
Read More
Read More
EFDSS NATIONAL YOUTH FOLK ENSEMBLE – Grand Arcade, Cambridge
Serendipity. It’s great isn’t it? I was just leaving John Lewis (other department stores are available -Ed), doing a spot of late-night shopping, when I ...
Read More
Read More
LONESOME GEORGE – Flat As The Earth (own label)
What do you do if you’re essentially an Irish traditional band who also want “to represent an underlying dissatisfaction that we believe to be present ...
Read More
Read More
Bruce Cockburn to visit UK in November
Few recording artists are as creative and prolific as Bruce Cockburn. Since his self-titled debut in 1970, the Canadian singer-songwriter has issued a steady stream ...
Read More
Read More
BEINN LEE – Osgarra (own label BL18)
Beinn Lee are a young six-piece band who are deeply rooted in the music of their home in Uist. Osgarra is their debut and I ...
Read More
Read More
JULIE JULY BAND – Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Aurora Folk Records JJB18CD1)
The Julie July Band has built a substantial reputation on reinterpretations of Sandy Denny's songs, so it comes as no surprise that the CD Who ...
Read More
Read More
IRA BERNSTEIN & RILEY BAUGUS – Appalachian Roots (Yodel-Ay-Hee CD-0046)
I’m pretty sure I saw Ira Bernstein demonstrating his Appalachian clogging and flatfooting when he was the sensation of the festival circuit back in the ...
Read More
Read More
WE BANJO 3 – Haven (own label WB3CD005)
I know I’ve said this before but there are four members of We Banjo 3: two sets of brothers David and Martin Howley and Fergal ...
Read More
Read More
Techno-folkies Niteworks release their second album
Air Fàir an Là, the second album by Niteworks releases 17th August, and is the follow up to Niteworks critically acclaimed debut album, NW. The ...
Read More
Read More
JACKIE OATES – Lush Studio Soho
I have reported on CD launch events from a number of venues; the BBC Club, The Convent, even Wigan but none as lush as …well, ...
Read More
Read More
Philip Marino announces fourth album
Philip Marino is excited to announce the 27th of July, 2018 as the release date of his fourth CD, a ten-track album, entitled Chasing Ghosts ...
Read More
Read More
Martin Barre announces new solo album – Roads Less Travelled
Martin Barre, best-known as guitarist in Jethro Tull - one of the biggest selling prog bands of all time, releases his new solo album Roads ...
Read More
Read More
STEPH GEREMIA – Up She Flew (Black Box Music BBM009)
I was beginning to muse about why it is that Irish, and indeed Scottish, musicians have such a deep desire to rework and circulate the ...
Read More
Read More
Baka Beyond: 25 years of Spirit Of The Forest
A full 25 years after the release of Baka Beyond’s groundbreaking debut album, Spirit Of The Forest, the band celebrate their beginnings with a series ...
Read More
Read More
YVES LAMBERT TRIO – Tentation (La Prûche Libre PRU2 4818)
Yves Lambert's is a well-known and well-respected name in Québécois traditional circles, as a founding member of La Bottine Souriante, as founder of the Bébert ...
Read More
Read More
SHEILA K CAMERON – Those They Chose (Glalell SKC1708CD)
Over the past couple of years, Sheila K Cameron has completed the reissue of her 7-CD back catalogue and recently released Those They Chose, an ...
Read More
Read More
GEORGE DUFF – The Collier Laddie (BEAGCD BEAG CD005)
Although he’s been singing for many years and is well-known and respected in Scotland George Duff hadn’t until now made a solo album. He is ...
Read More
Read More
ROO PANES – Quiet Man (CRC057CD)
Roo Panes released his third album Quiet Man on June 15th. Panes has a strong following – I gather his first two albums clocked up ...
Read More
Read More
Richard Thompson: new album in September
Richard Thompson is set to return with 13 Rivers on September 14, via Proper Records. The thirteen-song set is the Grammy nominated artist’s first self-produced album ...
Read More
Read More
TRAIL WEST – From The Sea To The City (TW Records TWO1CD)
Trail West’s third album, From The Sea To The City finds the band contemplating the often necessary transition for islanders (Hebrideans, in this case) to ...
Read More
Read More
Bert Jansch – Just A Simple Soul: a definitive best of collection
From his 1965 iconic debut album, Bert’s peerless musicality, songwriting and interpretation of traditional song has held generation after generation spellbound and inspired musicians in ...
Read More
Read More
TARA BEIER – California 1970 (Red Raven)
The title, California 1970, pretty much tells you where this is coming from musically and lyrically, as the Canadian singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist (not to ...
Read More
Read More
STEVE TILSTON – Distant Days (Riverboat Records TUGCD1117)
Steve Tilston has enjoyed a long career as a singer, composer and guitarist both solo and in partnerships. It seems to me that his popularity ...
Read More
Read More
PAUL COWLEY – [Just What I Know] (Lou B Music LBM 005 2018)
In the notes that arrived with Paul Cowley's third solo CD [Just What I Know], he explains the album's title by quoting the Reverend Gary ...
Read More
Read More
Dave Whetstone talks about returning to The Resolution
"Why did I stop?" asks melodeon player Dave Whetstone, as he prepares to return to the stage for only the second time in twenty years ...
Read More
Read More
SINGLES BAR 31 A round-up of recent EPs and singles
Special Commissions is just that, a set of songs written or recorded by JIM CAUSLEY, for one-off projects and left in search of a home ...
Read More
Read More
Scottish trio Assynt announce their debut album
Assynt are one of Scotland’s newest, most exciting folk trios featuring award winning musicians Graham Mackenzie (fiddle), David Shedden (pipes/whistles) and Innes White (guitar/mandolin). Having ...
Read More
Read More
CLANNAD – Turas 1980 (Made In Germany Music, MIG02092)
On the heels of their 1979 US tour - the longest by any Irish band back then - a five-piece Clannad fetched up in Germany ...
Read More
Read More
Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith announce new album
The release of their critically acclaimed second album Night Hours in 2016 cemented Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith’s reputation as two of the most exciting ...
Read More
Read More
I SEE HAWKS IN LA – Live And Never Learn (Western Seeds WSRCD-013)
Having released a solo covers collection in 2016, lead singer Robert Waller returns to the band nest for their first album in five years. The ...
Read More
Read More
Trail West announce new album
From The Sea To The City is the latest album from Trail West, a band leading the thriving scene of Gaels in the city of ...
Read More
Read More
Hamish Napier announces new album, The Railway
The Railway is the much-anticipated new album from Scottish musician Hamish Napier. The follow-up to Hamish Napier’s critically-acclaimed debut solo album The River, Hamish’s newest ...
Read More
Read More
DAMIEN O’KANE & RON BLOCK – Banjophony (Pure Records PRCD48)
If you’re not a fan of the five-string egg-slicer you might be thinking of moving on but hold hard there, stranger. This is no ‘Duelling ...
Read More
Read More
CHRIS RONALD – Fragments (Borealis Records BCD 248)
With a solid body of work since 2004’s Pacific Time, the English-born/Canadian-based singer-songwriter, Chris Ronald has just issued album number four, titled Fragments. On this ...
Read More
Read More
COWBOY JUNKIES – All That Reckoning (Proper PRPCD149)
It has been six years since the Cowboy Junkies last released an album. The Nomad Series may have been something of a diversion for the ...
Read More
Read More
Jake Morley – new recordings and tour dates
Singer, songwriter and virtuoso guitar player Jake Morley is a firm believer in straight talking, direct songs. His Spotify playlist, Tell It To Me Straight, ...
Read More
Read More
BOB & GILL BERRY – Echoes Of Alfred (WildGoose WGS427CD)
This takes me back. I knew Bob Berry’s parents back in the day when albums were still issued on cassettes. Len was a genial gentleman ...
Read More
Read More
MICHAEL McDERMOTT – Out From Under (Pauper Sky Records 2018)
I’ve been bewitched by the music of Michael McDermott for a few years now, I’m late to the party I know, as the Chicago based ...
Read More
Read More
BEN SURES – Poema Poematis (BS11CD)
Ben Sures is a Canadian singer songwriter whose latest album, Poema Poematis, was released worldwide on June 17th. His website tells you, “We are holding ...
Read More
Read More
REG MEUROSS – Reg Meuross (Stockfisch SFR 357.40922)
I don’t often get to review a Reg Meuross album, usually because someone else gets to them first but this time that someone else wrote ...
Read More
Read More
ALISTAIR McCULLOCH TRIO – Off The Hook (Rostral Records RTRLCD015)
The Alistair McCulloch Trio summer tour has become a well-established Scottish fixture over many years now, yet this busy bunch has only just got around ...
Read More
Read More
Alt-country band Lucero announce new album and tour dates
Celebrated rock / alt-country quintet Lucero celebrate twenty years together with the announcement of the August 3rd release of their ninth studio album Among The ...
Read More
Read More
Landermason announce new album
Northumberland based song-writing duo Landermason are soon to release their 6th studio album on their own label Lama Records. The combined talents of Fiona Lander ...
Read More
Read More
THE FRETLESS – Live From The Art Farm (own label TFCD004)
The Fretless is a string quartet – two fiddles, viola and cello although Karrnnel Sawitsky and Ben Plotnick double up on viola and fiddle so ...
Read More
Read More
FEAR OF DRINKING – Live In Zurich (own label)
There was an Englishman, a New Zealander and several Canadians who met in Vancouver and formed a band. While I don’t altogether approve of their ...
Read More
Read More
Australian singer/songwriter Ben Salter to tour UK
Acclaimed Australian songwriter and performer Ben Salter returns to Europe in 2018 to promote his new solo album Back Yourself (available now). Back Yourself is ...
Read More
Read More
BRACKENBURY & NEILSON – Crossings (Monoline MLRC1)
Crossings is an album that falls into a category generally known as “music”. Faith Brackenbury and John Neilson have worked together for some time and ...
Read More
Read More
THE ANDREW COLLINS TRIO – Tongue / Groove (own label, ACT003/ACT004)
Finally, there’s an album paying long-overdue homage to practical, yet rustic bathroom panelling. What’s that? It’s not? Fortunately, Tongue / Groove is a paired album ...
Read More
Read More
JEFF WARNER – Roam The Country Through (WildGoose WGS425CD)
If you haven’t yet heard Jeff Warner live, you have a rare treat in store. Jeff is the son of two of America’s foremost song ...
Read More
Read More
THE BEVVY SISTERS – This Moment (Interrupto IM007)
The Bevvy Sisters first came to our ears in 2009 with an album of mostly old songs sung in the close harmony style of the ...
Read More
Read More
RAB NOAKES – Welcome To Anniversaryville (Neon Records NEONCD021)
I was delighted to receive a review copy of the new Rab Noakes CD Welcome To Anniversaryville – scheduled for release on the 13th July ...
Read More
Read More
FOLKY MACFOLK FACE – When Night Falls (own label)
Can we just accept that this is the worst band name since Sconce The Ogives and move on? When Night Falls is the debut album ...
Read More
Read More
DOWALLY – Somewhere (own label, DW002)
Are we there yet? Today’s destination is highland hamlet Dowally – or rather, the immensely talented Scottish trio of that name, who decided to call ...
Read More
Read More
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Destination (Fellside Recordings FECD282)
The Fellside Recording label has been a major force in independent folk music recording for 42 years and has over 600 albums to its credit, ...
Read More
Read More
Jackie Oates: new album and tour dates
We are proud to announce the release of the seventh studio album, The Joy Of Living, by Jackie Oates. It’s a record that covers an ...
Read More
Read More
Rab Noakes announces new album
Welcome to Anniversaryville released on Friday 13th July 2018 In February of 2017 Rab Noakes performed a well-attended, highly-acclaimed concert, with his ‘70/50 in 2017’ ...
Read More
Read More
THE KIMBERLEYS – The Kimberleys (Popla OB7)
It can be difficult to take a well-known traditional song and attempt to do something new with it. Those of us with long memories will ...
Read More
Read More
ALDEN PATTERSON AND DASHWOOD – By The Night (own label)
Arriving in a hand printed card sleeve, By The Night is the second album from the Norwich-based trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel ...
Read More
Read More
Fellside Recordings announce their final history triple-CD set
After 42 years of the business and with the release of over 600 albums managing directors Paul and Linda Adams are now wanting to take ...
Read More
Read More
TONY ROSE – Medicine Tunes (Cannery Row Records. CRR 1824/ CRR 1825)
Recorded in just one session in the spring of 2017, Medicine Tunes is the debut solo album by Tony Rose. Moving away from his more ...
Read More
Read More
JAMIE MACDONALD & CHRISTIAN GAMAUF – The Pipe Slang (own label JMCG01)
Jamie and Christian met on the Isle Of Uist and, having participated in a cultural exchange in Asturias and paid their dues at small gigs, ...
Read More
Read More
