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).
BEATRIX PLAYERS – Magnified (own label)
Lining up as Amanda Alvarez (cello), Jess Kennedy (piano, flute) and Amy Birks (vocals), Beatrix Players are an London-based Anglo-Spanish trio who, taking their name ...
HECLA – Smallpipes, Fiddle, & Gaelic Song (KRS001)
I note on the “Thanks to” section on the cover of this CD that the ‘UHI Student Development Fund’ get first credit. I have no ...
SINGLES BAR 19
A round-up of recent EPs and singles KADIA are a young trio from Dorset who already have one album, East Of Alexandria, to their name ...
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 Winners Announced
The winners of the Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 have been announced in a ceremony broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Now in ...
CORMAC BEGLEY – Cormac Begley (Airt)
Who on earth would want to buy a CD of a solo artiste playing a concertina with no support from other musicians? Probably only somebody ...
New album from Elephant Sessions out next month
All We Have Is Now is the eagerly anticipated second album from award winning Highland neo-trad quintet, Elephant Sessions. Their debut album, The Elusive Highland ...
NED ROBERTS – Outside My Mind (Aveline AVREC004)
He may be physically based in London, but Ned Roberts’ spiritual and musical home is clearly late 60s California, Outside My Mind, his second album, ...
HARRI ENDERSBY – Homes/Lives (own label)
A rising new presence on the contemporary folk scene, Durham-born Harri Endersby has been putting herself about on the live circuit for the past four ...
Sound Of The Sirens announce debut album
There’s a certain transcendent magic that happens when two contrasting voices coalesce in perfect harmony – think The Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel or George ...
HAV – Inver (Folkwit f0136)
As albums go Inver is a bit off the wall but you hope for that from the Folkwit label and I really like it. HAV ...
CUNNING FOLK – Ritual Land, Uncommon Ground (Dharma)
George Nigel Hoyle is a man of many incarnations. He started out professional musical life as bassist with late 90s outfit Gay Dad, a band ...
FAY HIELD live at the West End Centre, Aldershot
31st March 2017 Fay Hield and The Hurricane Party started their spring tour at a brisk pace – seventeen songs, including two encores, in a ...
Cormac Begley releases debut album
Award winning concertina player and innovator, Cormac Begley, will be releasing his debut album in April! This, the first solo concertina album in traditional Irish ...
PETER KNIGHT’S GIGSPANNER live at Forest Arts, New Milton
30th March 2017 During Vincent Salzfaas’ enforced absence from this tour, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner have replaced him with not one but two percussionists. On duty ...
Colin Harper releases remastered and expanded album
Colin Harper, author of several books on music history, released his first national-level album in March 2016, Sunset Cavaliers – a homage to the musicians ...
AMY DUNCAN – Antidote (Filly Records FILLY002)
This CD, Antidote by Amy Duncan, is not generally my type of music but I really like this recording. Regretfully, the cover is somewhat minimal ...
TERENCE WINCH, MICHAEL WINCH, AND JESSE WINCH – This Day Too: Music from Irish America (Free Dirt Records CTM-CD-002)
The CD This Day Too: Music From Irish America is very much what it says on the tin. It's a collection of tunes and songs ...
The 2017 Folking Awards
Welcome to the 2017 Folking Awards. Last year's inaugural poll was such a success that we had to do it again. The nominations, in eight ...
JENN & LAURA-BETH – Bound (JBLB Records JBLB01)
Jenn Butterworth and Laura-Beth Salter have worked as a duo for eight years but Bound is their first album as a duo. The reason for ...
Introducing singer-songwriter Bob Gallie
Bob Gallie will tell you himself: " I carry a lot of baggage around with me "... this is from someone who writes songs that ...
Room For All: Shrewsbury Folk Festival launches new cultural diversity project
A new project to celebrate cultural diversity and highlight the plight of refugees has been launched by Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Organisers of the annual four-day ...
STEAMCHICKEN – Look Both Ways (Chicken Records STEAM16/3)
Steamchicken began life as a ceilidh band but have expanded their horizons considerably with a brass section and a powerful vocalist in Amy Kakoura. Look ...
SHORTSTUFF – Big Blue (Blonde On Blonde DCT16BB01)
When I first played this album I assumed that Shortstuff were American and had been playing the blues for years. Big Blue has a confident ...
Meet hazeyjane – ambient guitar experimentalists
Creation of Northamptonshire-based composer, acclaimed acoustic guitarist and singer Chris Brown, hazeyjane is the vehicle for the live musical expression of his own original songs ...
Shirley Collins talks to Dave Freak for Folking
"It’s been a sort of fairy story!" is how Shirley Collins describes her unexpected return to the spotlight with a studio album and live tour ...
VARIOUS – From Here: English Folk Field Recordings (From Here Sitw005)
They may be newcomers to the scene, but Stick In The Wheel are certainly making their mark, not just with their own recordings and associated ...
QUILES & CLOUD – Shake Me Now (Compass)
Although conveniently filed under NewGrass, there’s more to San Francisco based duo Maria Quiles and Rory Cloud that bluegrass, Shake Me Now, their third album, ...
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors reveal new album
Souvenirs. Drew Holcomb has collected many of them. A road warrior for more than a decade, he's spent his adulthood onstage and on the road, ...
BENJAMIN FOLKE THOMAS – Copenhagen (LOUVAIO L00005)
Benjamin Folke Thomas was born on a small island off the coast of Sweden, mainly populated by evangelical Christians, but his third album takes it's ...
Harri Endersby announces her debut album
Durham-based musician and songwriter Harri Endersby is proud to release her full-length, debut album Homes/Lives. The 11-track album is a collection of songs written by ...
Ron Sexsmith announces new album
Three-time Juno award winner Ron Sexsmith has revealed details about his new album, The Last Rider. Ron’s thirteenth studio recording was co-produced at The Bathouse Studios in Kingston, Ontario ...
Halsway Manor – call for Artists In Residence 2018
Halsway Manor – National Centre for the Folk Arts Halsway Lane, Nr Crowcombe, Taunton TA4 4BD Halsway Manor, National Centre for Folk Arts is seeking ...
DAVE BURLAND AND THE AWKWARD SQUAD – Okkard (Fat Cat FATCD037)
Dave Burland may have recorded one of the definitive folk albums of the seventies but he’s always been a rocker at heart as anyone who ...
Jenn & Laura-Beth announce debut album, Bound
Jenn Butterworth (guitar and voice) and Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin and voice) have each been a presence on the UK folk scene for a number of ...
FINTAN McHUGH – Wait Till The Clouds Roll By (own label)
Wait Till The Clouds Roll By is the debut album from young Irish singer Fintan McHugh. It has been available for a while but has ...
Ida Wenøe announces debut album
Danish Music Award nominee Ida Wenøe (pronounced EE-da ven-O) is excited to announce the UK release of her impressive debut solo album Time Of Ghosts on ...
MONSTER CEILIDH BAND – Mutation (Haystack Records HAYCD011)
There was a time when I would stand in front of a ceilidh band and when things were going well and you had a hall ...
Seafoam Green announces debut album, Topanga Mansion
The genesis of Seafoam Green followed a chance meeting with Rich Robinson during recording sessions in Nashville. Dave O’Grady was invited by Robinson to open ...
MAD DOG McREA – Live at Cambridge Junction (Cambridge City Roots Festival)
It’s a chilly Wednesday in February, but there’s the heat of a storming party going on from the minute the door opens into the Cambridge ...
COVEN live at the West End Centre, Aldershot
Coven aren’t so much a group as a collective made up of three elements. On the one hand there is the musical delicacy of Lady ...
LORELEY – The Frozen North (own label LRL001)
I specifically asked to review The Frozen North because I was interested in the concept put to me as “a collection of traditional songs by ...
KING’S GAMBIT – From One To Another (own label)
If you take away the rock excesses of folk-rock you’re left with Northampton’s King’s Gambit – a band that rocks acoustically while still capable of ...
RODNEY CROWELL – Close Ties (New West Records 6354)
While I've long been aware of Rodney Crowell's talents as a songwriter, going back at least as far as Emmylou Harris's 1975 recording of 'Bluebird ...
Thea Gilmore announces new album and single
Thea Gilmore has announced the release of her new album The Counterweight, which will be released June 2nd through Cooking Vinyl. The first single to ...
OLD BLIND DOGS – Room With A View (own label OBD013)
It has always been my opinion that an album/CD should have a minimum of twelve tracks to offer the purchaser value for money. I equally ...
CHILLI WILLI AND THE RED HOT PEPPERS – Real Sharp (Last LMCD204)
Way back in 1972, Martin Stone and Philip Lithman, reunited as a duo following the former’s stint with blues acts Savoy Brown and Mighty Baby ...
Amy Duncan announces her sixth solo album
Antidote is the adventurous 6th album by singer/songwriter Amy Duncan. There are elements of pop folk, with harp and sparse acoustic guitar in an open ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – The Food Of Love Project (Autolycus Records AUTO1CD)
Commissioned to mark the Oxford Shakespeare Jubilee 2016, The Food Of Love Project falls into the weird and wonderful category. All the tracks are or ...
Aimee Mann heralds her new album with a single, ‘Goose Snow Cone’
The first album by Aimee Mann in five years, Mental Illness, will be released on March 31st via SuperEgo/Membran. The record follows 2012’s Charmer, which ...
Fay Hield talks to Folking about touring, banjos and working in the shed
Last year Fay Hield took her Hurricane Party on tour to promote her new album, Old Adam. They are on the road again soon so ...
ATLANTIC UNION – Homeward (Blue Island Records BI201601)
Atlantic Union is a long-established acoustic trio from St. John's, Newfoundland. Their third CD Homeward features a new thematic approach as well as a change ...
Quiles & Cloud announce their debut album
When Maria Quiles (pronounced key-less) and Rory Cloud met in 2011, both were adrift. Maria had quit her job, given up her San Francisco apartment, and moved ...
The Waifs announce 25th anniversary album
It has been 25 years since West Australian sisters Donna and Vikki Simpson (now Vikki Thorn) joined forces with Josh Cunningham to create one of Australia’s best-loved bands, The Waifs. To ...
The centuries-old Devon songs that are returning ‘home’ from Newfoundland
It’s a link that spans 3,500 miles and hundreds of years and today, the Devon-Newfoundland connection lives on not just through a sense of shared ...
Dave Burn announces his debut solo album
Dave Burn, former vocalist and guitarist of alt-country band ahab emerges to create his eagerly awaited debut solo album Arizona. By turns autobiographical, celebratory and ...
MICK RYAN & PAUL DOWNES – The Passing Hour (WildGoose WGS417CD)
This is an album by two veterans; one famous as a songwriter, the other well-known as a sidesman and both fine singers. Many of the ...
DARIA KULESH Live at Cecil Sharp House
February 23rd is a date that should be known in history. On this day in 1944 the entire population of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist ...
NORRIE McCULLOCH – Bare Along The Branches (Black Dust BDR1603)
Based in Glasgow, Ayrshire singer-songwriter Norrie McCulloch clearly doesn’t like to let the grass grow under his feet. Bare Along The Branches is his third ...
COVEN – Unholy Choir (own label COVENCD01)
In case you haven’t been paying attention, let me explain. Coven combines the prodigious talents of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow, Lady Maisery (Hazel Askew, ...
Alasdair Roberts – new album and video
Alasdair Robert's high-spirited new album, Pangs, is in stores today - and in commemoration with this forthcoming moment of uplift, we share with one and all the ...
EMILY MAGUIRE – A Bit Of Blue (Shaktu Records, SHK2105)
Emily Maguire's latest album, A Bit Of Blue, pretty much defines the maxim that when you want people to really listen, speak quietly: make them ...
Track Dogs announce new album
These particular dogs started life back in the autumn of 2006, under the name of The Garrett Wall Band. The starting line-up was simple but ...
Lisa Knapp announces new solo album
Lisa Knapp first emerged in 2007 with a remarkable, independently released debut Wild And Undaunted which was followed a full seven years later by the ...
Emily Maguire – new album
Emily Maguire, the beguiling British-born singer-songwriter whose remarkable personal journey fast-tracked her from the Australian bush to the Albert Hall, will release her first album ...
THE HYDES – Green & Blue (Hyde Music Productions – HYDECD1)
This recently released debut album from Denver sibling duo – Joanna and Iain Hyde – who have mastered the art of Irish music, and entwined ...
RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE – Poor Ellen Smith (WildGoose Records WGS419CD)
Rattle On The Stovepipe are Dave Arthur, Pete Cooper and Dan Stewart who play American old-timey music with the classic guitar, fiddle and banjo set-up, ...
Jeremy Tuplin announces new single and debut album
London-via-Somerset newcomer Jeremy Tuplin will release his debut LP I Dreamt I Was An Astronaut in the summer of 2017. Following on from his two independent released ...
KATE DIMBLEBY – Songbirds (Folkstock FSR44)
For the past 25 years Kate Dimbleby, the daughter of legendary broadcaster David and opera loving cookery writer Josceline, has been plying her musical trade ...
SALLY BARKER – Ghost Girl (Old Dog Records 017)
The title track is a new recording of the song she wrote for 2015 Poozies album, Into The Well, featuring real rather than electric piano, ...
SINGLES BAR 18
A round-up of recent EPs and singles Having released their Death and Other Animals album to wide acclaim last year, FAUSTUS return to the well ...
GARY INNES – Era (own label GH101)
Oh boy, do I like this CD? Yes, I do! Era is only the second ‘solo’ album released by Gary Innes who is part of ...
TOP FLOOR TAIVERS – A Delicate Game (TFT Records TFTR001)
The first thing I had to do was discover the meaning of taiver. Apparently it means a rag and, by extension, low or abject. Top ...
Martha Tilston announces new album and single
Enchanting songstress Martha Tilston has announced details of her new album Nomadreleased via Squiggly Records on May 12th. Martha’s seventh album to date, Nomad will ...
AMY WADGE AND LUKE JACKSON live at Cambridge Junction
Cambridge City Roots Festival, 7 February 2017 What comes across so strikingly from an evening with Amy Wadge and Luke Jackson is their natural rapport ...
The Food Of Love Project features Shakespearean songs
Introducing The Food of Love Project, a compilation album featuring some of the great names of folk music performing a rich variety of songs either ...
STEVE PLEDGER live at Dunster Castle Hotel
Friday 9th February 2017 A very chilly evening in Dunster, North Somerset was made glowingly warm by a lovely gig, courtesy of award winning singer ...
CAMBRIDGE CITY ROOTS FESTIVAL – Various artists and venues, 3-11 February 2017
The 2017 inaugural City Roots Festival is kind of like an expansion pack for the Cambridge Folk Festival: a winter top-up with lots of bonus ...
POLICE DOG HOGAN – Wild By The Side Of The Road
Formed in 2009 and currently an eight-piece, Wild By The Side Of The Road is Police Dog Hogan’s fourth album and firmly consolidates their growing ...
THE AMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BAND – Now. Here. This. (100Promotion 100P038)
I was approached by acclaimed Czech and London based singer songwriter Jamie Marshall to do a review of 'Now. Here. This.' - the debut album ...
Old Blind Dogs announce new album
Old Blind Dogs are back with a new record and a new line up. Original member, Jonny Hardie (Fiddle / Vocals) is joined by long ...
Monster Ceilidh Band announce new album
Mutation: a new line-up unleashed; a greater, deeper exploration of Monster Ceilidh Band’s signature melding of traditional music and powerful, electronic beats. For the first ...
Dreadzone release new album
Entering an impressive third decade, Dreadzone, one of the most energetic, exciting and powerful live bands to emerge from the post-rave scene, release a brand ...
CARREG LAFAR – Aur (Sain SCD2754)
Carreg Lafar are a five-piece band from Wales and Aur is their fourth album in a career that has spanned 20 years. From the front ...
THE HUT PEOPLE – Routes (Fellside FECD280)
The Hut People are an English instrumental duo, Sam Pirt and Gary Hammond. Routes is their fourth studio album on the Fellside label. Both are ...
FAIRPORT CONVENTION – 50:50@50 (Matty Grooves MGCD054)
Opportunities for celebration come round with increasing frequency when you’ve been in the business as long as Fairport Convention has. The current line-up has been ...
Belinda O’Hooley talks to Folking about Coven
There’s a new gang in town and if their publicity photographs are any guide they mean business. Coven combines the talents of O’Hooley & Tidow, ...
STEVEN JAMES ADAMS AND THE FRENCH DROPS – live
The Portland Arms (Cambridge City Roots Festival, 3 February 2017) Singer-songwriter Steven James Adams returns to home turf in Cambridge to play the packed, intimate ...
The Hut People announce their fourth album
This month The Hut People release their fourth studio album on the Fellside label entitled Routes. Tunes forging pathways and routes underground; across oceans and ...
BENJAMIN WILLIAM PIKE – A Burdensome Year (Gin House Records)
When I first heard of Benjamin William Pike's latest CD A Burdensome Year (released on January 27th 2017), my interest was piqued by a suggested ...
SHEILA K CAMERON – Alone On The Road (Glalell SKC1703CD)
It’s a truth universally acknowledged (pace Jane Austen) that to really sing the blues you have to feel the blues, have to live the blues ...
BRENDAN HENDRY & JONNY TOMAN – Living Roots (own label LR001)
Living Roots is a traditional and modern tunes album that sets the scene from the first track – ‘The Boyne Hunt’. Hornpipe and fiddle at its ...
Rock legend Steve Hackett announces new album
Guitar virtuoso and rock legend, Steve Hackett (formerly of Genesis), releases his latest album The Night Siren on 24th March 2017 through InsideOut Music (Sony). ...
Rodney Crowell announces new album
Multi-Grammy award winning troubadour Rodney Crowell will release his new album Close Ties on 7th April through New West Records. The ten-song set is his ...
The Doc Rowe Archive And Collection – important news
New exhibition to celebrate and interpret traditional British folk culture The Doc Rowe Archive And Collection is delighted to announce an exhibition of artworks inspired ...
KEITH JAMES – The Songs Of Leonard Cohen – live at Farnham Maltings
No-one can accuse Keith James of opportunism. He has been touring The Songs Of Leonard Cohen for six years now. The set has changed sometimes ...
ÉILÍS KENNEDY – Westward (own label)
Éilís Kennedy comes from and still lives in Dingle in the far west of Ireland. She is half of Lumiere with Pauline Scanlon and Westward ...
Amelia Curran announces new album, Watershed
Canadian Juno award winning songwriter Amelia Curran reveals plans for new album Watershed, due for UK release on 21st April, through Six Shooter Records, following ...
ELIZA CARTHY & THE WAYWARD BAND – Big Machine (Topic TSCD592P)
From her debut solo album back in 1996, Carthy has never been predictable in her constant determination to both celebrate and reinvent the folk tradition ...
Carrie Elkin announces new solo album
The Penny Collector is Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin’s long-awaited new solo album. After touring extensively as a featured vocalist with the Sam Baker Trio ...
THE RACHEL HAMER BAND – Hard Ground (own label RHB01)
Hard Ground is the debut album from The Rachel Hamer Band: Rachel, Graeme Armstrong, Grace Smith and Sam Partridge. The Newcastle based quartet are the ...
Joe Booley announces his debut album
Joe Booley is a 20 year-old singer-songwriter from Hampshire who has been active on the local and national scene since 2012. In the last five ...
KRIS WOODBIRD – Monsters Of Heart (Mess Productions MESS116)
Known to friends and family as Krister Svensson, Woodbird hails from southern Sweden and is currently based out of Stockholm, arriving at his indie folk ...
Martin Harley – new album
Static In The Wires is the new album from blues-Americana singer-songwriter Martin Harley and bass player extraordinaire Daniel Kimbro (Jerry Douglas, Larkin Poe). Martin Harley ...
MIKE GROGAN – Too Many Ghosts (Poacher Records PRCD105 & PRLP106)
Mike Grogan’s musical background spans many genres - rock, punk and indie among them. He became a solo artist in 2011 and released his first ...
Folk By The Oak – last chance for early bird tickets
Folk By The Oak were thrilled to announce the addition of acoustic blues legend Eric Bibb to our line-up last week, and can now confirm ...
ALICE MARRA – Chain Up The Swings (Inner City Sound Records ICS002)
Those of you who are paying attention will have spotted the name and wondered what was going on. Yes, Alice Marra is a Hazey Jane ...
DÓNAL CLANCY – On The Lonesome Plain (own label DCLPCD16)
Dónal is a scion of the Clancy dynasty and really had no choice but to embrace their musical heritage but spent his early life in ...
SIOBHAN MILLER – Strata (Songprint Records SPR003CD)
Scotland is currently blessed with a crop of superb young female singers and Siobhan Miller is right up there in the top section of that ...
THE GRAHAMS – The Grahams and Friends (Live in Studio) (Three Sirens Music Group)
Alyssa and Doug Graham have spent nearly their entire lives exploring music together. Friends since she was seven and he was nine, they became a ...
Mànran’s Gary Innes announces new solo album and single
Highland born accordionist and one of the founding members of Scottish award-winning celtic supergroup, Mànran, Gary Innes, is about to release his much-anticipated second solo ...
MÀNRAN – An Dà Là – The Two Days (Mànran Records MAN04)
It is now so easy to create your own CD that most artistes of any calibre have at least one to boast of. Regretfully, this ...
Mike Grogan announces his new album
The new album by singer-songwriter Mike Grogan, called Too Many Ghosts is released on the 10th February, 2017. This will be Mike’s third album and ...
Keston Cobblers Club – new album
This spring Keston Cobblers Club return with their brand new album, Almost Home, the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2015 album,Wildfire. While continuing to ...
Son Volt announce their new album, Notes Of Blue
Nashville, TN – Seminal band Son Volt has announced the February 17 release of their new album, Notes Of Blue (Thirty Tigers). Led by the ...
SINGLES BAR 17
A round-up of recent EPs and singles Having released their latest album, Good Times Will Come Again last year, MEGSON now lift the lead track, ...
RAYNA GELLERT – Workin’s Too Hard (Storysound 161-019)
Fiddle player with Uncle Earl, Gellert follows up her 2013 solo debut with the seven track Workin’s Too Hard, which, at under 25 minutes, may ...
JUDE JOHNSTONE – A Woman’s Work (BoJack BJR2221960-2)
Although A Woman’s Work is her seventh album, there’s a very good chance you’ve never heard of the piano-playing New England singer-songwriter. It is, however, ...
RED TAIL RING – Fall Away Blues (Earthwork Music EW8504)
So you’ve seen the title, Fall Away Blues, and noted that Red Tail Ring are a guitar/fiddle/banjo duo so you know what their album sounds ...
Americana Music Association showcase events at AmericanaFest UK
As part of this year’s Americana Music Association UK Awards, there will also be an evening of curated showcases from twenty new and established artists ...
FLEETWOOD CAVE – People Like Us (Rhythm Records FCPLU2016))
Marion Fleetwood and Gregg Cave met with the formation of TRADarrr and things went from there. Unlike their parent band, Fleetwood Cave’s debut album, People ...
Feast Of Fiddles – new studio album
Feast Of Fiddles was formed in 1994 as a one-off concert ensemble as Hugh Crabtree thought it would be a good idea and Mike Sanderson ...
Fairport Convention celebrate their golden jubilee
Fairport Convention, the legendary band who originated British folk-rock, celebrate their golden anniversary this year. When Fairport takes the stage on Saturday 27 May 2017 ...
JOHN CEE STANNARD & BLUES HORIZON – To The River (Cast Iron CIRCD 028)
It might be blues but it’s happy music. Sometimes my wife’s initial reactions to an album are perfectly insightful and To The River, the latest ...
Barbara Dickson – new EP
Barbara Dickson’s career spans 50 years and she is now recording some of her most interesting material, a fusion of old and new. ‘I started ...
Rayna Gellert releases a new mini album
If Rayna Gellert seems a preternaturally gifted songwriter, it’s because she’s seen farther into the old songs than most. Growing up in a musical family, Gellert turned ...
JOHN RENBOURN & WIZZ JONES – Joint Control (Riverboat Records TUGCD1095)
This CD review is something of a special case, in that it actually comes from my own collection, and wasn't bought specifically to review (and ...
SON OF THE VELVET RAT – Dorado (Fluff and Gravy FnG037/Mint 400)
Dorado is released on February 17th, the sixth album of husband and wife duo Georg Altzeibler and his wife Heiki Binder who left Austria to ...
Chris Murphy announces new album of original fiddle music
Have you ever had the feeling that a perfect moment could only be made more so if it had a soundtrack? From misty strolls down ...
SOPHIE RAMSAY – The Seas Between Us (own label SRAM003)
The collection of Scots and Gaelic songs that form The Seas Between Us are largely taken from Burns (either by attribution or orgin), together with ...
Thom Ashworth announces debut EP
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture is the debut EP by English folksinger and bassist Thom Ashworth. Thom hails from Hampshire, but calls London home. Thom’s ...
Benjamin Folke Thomas announces new album
Scandinavian-born singer Benjamin Folke Thomas is excited to announce the release of his impressive new album Copenhagen on March 3rd, 2017. Folke Thomas was born ...
DIPPER MALKIN – Tricks Of The Trade (own label DM001)
If you wish for an exemplar of the adage that less is more look no further than Tricks Of The Trade, the debut album from ...
New duo Fleetwood Cave announce debut album and spring tour
Fleetwood Cave, the new folk duo featuring Marion Fleetwood and Gregg Cave, will be launching their new album, ‘People Like Us’ with a tour of ...
SINGLES BAR 16
A round-up of recent EPs and singles We’re a bit late with this one but we can’t let the year turn without a mention of ...
Siobhan Miller announces her second solo abum
Siobhan Miller releases her hotly-anticipated second solo album, Strata, on February 24th, 2017. Following her well-received 2014 debut, Flight of Time, Strata consists of eleven ...
The Amazing Devil release debut album
They met aboard a boat bound for strange new worlds and sang each other songs of blashy storms and sinking ships, following the release of ...
JAMES McARTHUR AND THE HEAD GARDENERS – Burnt Moth (Moorland MLAND003)
James McArthur’s third album, Burnt Moth, is every bit as enigmatic as its predecessor, Strange Readings From The Weather Station. The line-up remains the same ...
PIPPA REID-FOSTER – Driftwood Harp (own label PRF2016CD)
There’s a meditative quality to the sound of the harp, something at once hypnotic and calming. It can be a pleasure to put on the ...
RAB NOAKES – The Treatment Tapes EP (Neon Records NEONCD018)
I haven't heard much of singer/songwriter Rab Noakes since the early 1970s, when he was associated with Lindisfarne, Gerry Rafferty and others, as well as ...
Jenny Sturgeon records an EP for St Kilda
The Wren And The Salt Air is a collection of songs and tunes by acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter Jenny Sturgeon. It was written to celebrate the ...
Police Dog Hogan – new album
Police Dog Hogan release their new album Wild By The Side Of The Road on Major Tom Records on Friday 17th February. The official launch ...
GEOFF LAKEMAN – After All These Years (own label GLAK-01)
Geoff Lakeman isn't quite as famous as his sons but he is a much regarded singer and songwriter, particularly in the West Country. At 69 ...
Robert Vincent announces his second album
Robert Vincent is an award winning singer songwriter from Liverpool and I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins is the follow up to his acclaimed ...
The Blue Aeroplanes – new album
The Blue Aeroplanes release new album Welcome, Stranger! today. Their unique amalgam of rock, folk, poetry, punk, dance and art has been an acknowledged influence on ...
Dempsey Broughton – new album
The collection’s nine tracks range from outlandish and inventive instruments, to traditional and original songs, with “a slightly political twist” running through. Highlights include ‘Wheels ...
CHRIS WOOD – So Much To Defend (RUF RUFCD014)
Chris Wood’s fifth solo album comes across as a model of restraint on first hearing but first hearings can be deceptive. So Much To Defend ...
Stephen Fearing announces new album
For multiple JUNO Award winner Stephen Fearing, a cross-country relocation - from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia - kicked off a period of ...
The Grahams – new album
Dynamic Nashville-based Americana duo The Grahams announce the release of The Grahams and Friends (Live in Studio), a combined collection of songs from Rattle The ...
DARIA KULESH – Long Lost Home (own label)
I sometimes feel that I’ve lived with this album for almost as long as Daria has. I heard all the songs as they were released ...
Mànran return with new album – An Dà Là
After three and half years’ near-constant touring, Mànran are back with a storming new album. The title, An Dà Là (The Two Days), comes from ...
LOUISE BICHAN – Out Of My Own Light (Swanbister Records SWAN001CD)
If you’re the sort of person who reads the small print on CD covers, you’ll be familiar with the name of Louise Bichan. She is ...
ALISTAIR ANDERSON & NORTHLANDS – Alistair Anderson & Northlands (White Meadow WMR0031)
Not that he’s been away or anything but Alistair seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance, reinvigorating himself by looking to the next generation ...
RAPSQUILLION – Earthly Joys (Own Label)
Rapsquillion is a harmony group known to "stalk the Welsh Marches with their eclectic mix of songs" though these days they seem to be stalking ...
NICK BURBRIDGE & TIM COTTERELL – Resolved (On The Fiddle OTFCD032)
Nick Burbridge is one of music’s renaissance men: poet, singer, songwriter, novelist and playwright; generally held to be one of the finest songwriters that the ...
COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON – Coda (No Masters NMCD48)
Subtitled A Concluding Event, Coda marks the beginning of the end for Coope Boyes & Simpson. They’ll be playing some gigs next year to say ...
Kara reflect on a year of changes
Dai Jeffries talks to Kara about their comings and goings This has been a turbulent year for our friends Kara. It began with the departure ...
Tom Moriarty announces third solo album
With a voice “hewn out of rock and soaked in brandy and cigarettes,” a finger-picking guitar prowess, and a growing recognition as singer-songwriter, Tom Moriarty ...
THE FLYING TOADS – Warts ‘N All (Own Label)
Warts 'N All is the second CD by the Flying Toads to come my way. I reviewed the older CD In Stitches a couple of ...
First acts announced for Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2017
Fairport Convention has announced acts booked so far to appear at Fairport's Cropredy Convention music festival in 2017. The line-up is not yet finalised and ...
DOGHOUSE ROSES – Lost Is Not Losing (Yellowroom Music YLLWRM-010)
Lost Is Not Losing came to me for review – I think you might like this, was the suggestion. For the past week it has ...
The Unthanks announce Diversions Vol. 4
Diversions Vol. 4 The Unthanks - How Wild The Wind Blows Performing the Songs and Poems of Molly Drake A wistful mother in the 1950s makes some simple ...
STEVE DAGLEISH – Yours For Eternity (own label DAG CD 05)
Steve Dagleish is originally from Hull and, via Saltburn-on-Sea, now resident in London. Yours For Eternity is his second album. Like many others, Steve tried ...
Siobhan Miller – single, album and tour dates
As a taster for the forthcoming album Strata, Siobhan Miller’s lovely, new single ‘One Too Many Mornings’ is released today. As well as Siobhan’s wonderful vocals, ...
ROBYN STAPLETON – Songs Of Robert Burns (Laverock Records LAVE002CD)
I was delighted to receive a copy to review of Songs Of Robert Burns, the latest album by Robyn Stapleton. Quite simply, this is a fabulous ...
JOHNNY COPPIN – All On A Winter’s Night (Red Sky Records RSKCD121)
Christmas is nearly upon us, and acclaimed Gloucestershire singer/ songwriter and Radio Gloucester presenter, Johnny Coppin is currently on his annual tour taking the All ...
JIMMY ALDRIDGE & SID GOLDSMITH – Night Hours (Fellside FECD278)
Night Hours is the second album from Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith and I must confess that I have been shockingly remiss in catching up ...
Jethro Tull – The String Quartets
A massive treat for Jethro Tull fans and classical aficionados alike, Jethro Tull The String Quartets is an album of classic Jethro Tull repertoire, imaginatively arranged ...
EDDIE AND LUC – Tirade (Brig Records EDLUC2CD)
Tirade comes out the speakers at you like a cavalry charge as Eddie Seaman winds up his Highland bagpipes and Iain Copeland hits the drums ...
ANDREW JOHN & LISSA – Aren’t We Lucky (Last Resort Records LRCD011)
Aren't We Lucky is the second set by Andrew John & Lissa to come my way this year. Whereas At Home was very much an ...
ROSIE HODGSON – Rise Aurora (own label)
I'll get straight to the point. Rosie Hodgson's Rise Aurora is an absolute gem of an album and I will probably not be the first ...
SINGLES BAR 15 – Merry Christmas Everybody
A round-up of festive EPs and singles It’s been a busy few months for THE CHANGING ROOM, aka Cornish duo Sam Kelly and Tanya Brittain ...
DAVID YOUNGS – In Between Silence (own label ASANACD003)
In Between Silence is the second album from Cambridge-based acoustic guitarist and composer David Youngs. Its eleven tracks are all original compositions opening with the ...
James McArthur announces new album
Burnt Moth is the second album from Welsh-born folk singer/songwriter James McArthur. Having acquired years of experience as Paul Weller’s stickman, he moved frontstage to ...
ANNA & ELIZABETH – Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt DIRT-CD-0072)
Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth Laprelle sing the songs of the southern mountains in the old-time style with banjos, guitar, fiddle and distinctive harmonies. Elizabeth hails ...
Fraser Anderson releases EP
A Scottish guitarist, songwriter and singer blessed with a delicate yet warm and comforting voice, the soulful troubadour Fraser Anderson has released four progressively improving ...
Kenilworth’s Song Club is a hit
Keith Ayling’s event was a full house with all wanting more. Launched on Sunday 20th November, Kenilworth artist and musician Keith Ayling’s Song Vlub featured ...
RIBBON ROAD – Our Streets Are Numbered! (Shipyard RRD009)
As Leverhulme Artists in Residence in the Geography Department of Durham University Brenda and Geoff Heslop were involved in Disposal – in the Numbered Streets, ...
THE REVELLERS – Skeletons (The Revellers REV12345678)
A normal drive to work, a quiet day and you slip a CD into the player, which then explodes with raw energy. That is the ...
THE WESTERN FLYERS – Wild Blue Yonder (Versa-Tone Records)
Sometimes we review really serious albums and sometimes they are just for fun. I wonder if you can guess which sort Wild Blue Yonder is ...
RASTKO – Love, Hate And Twists Of Fate (Vacilando ’68)
The mood in Medway was forlorn in 2013 when local favourites the Singing Loins disbanded. Other projects were pursued and yearnings sated but that nagging ...
CHARLIE HARRIGAN – Wasted And Wounded (Medicine Hat Records MHR000721)
After a long career littered with names like Alex Campbell, Alexis Korner, Lonnie Donegan and Derroll Adams, Charlie Harrigan took a break and went sailing ...
Michael McDermott announces rare UK tour
On his tenth solo album, Chicago based singer-songwriter Michael McDermott (The Westies) has delivered one of the most honest, daring and defiant recordings of his ...
MARTIN GREEN – Flit live
Cambridge Junction, 22 October 2016 Following its premiere at Edinburgh Festival in August 2016, Martin Green's latest musical concept Flit, heads out on tour, starting ...
UB40 FEATURING ALI, ASTRO AND MICKEY – Unplugged + Greatest Hits (UMC)
The Unplugged album (along with the Greatest Hits compilation), by the band calling itself UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro and Mickey, means that UB40's current status ...
Robb Johnson live at Lodsworth
19th November 2016 The last time I heard Robb Johnson live was the London Gentle Men show, an acoustic, thoughtful story of the Great War ...
SINGLES BAR 14
A round-up of recent EPs and singles HICKORY SIGNALS are Brighton duo Laura Ward on vocals, flute and shruti box and Adam Ronchetti in guitars ...
Daria Kulesh – Tales of Ingushetia
Dai Jeffries talks to Daria Kulesh about her recent trip to Ingushetia, her grandmother's ancestral homeland, the stories that form the basis of her new ...
ANNE JANELLE – I Didn’t Want To Break It (own label AJCD003)
Having trained as a classical cellist, earning Masters in cello performance from the University of Ottawa, Janelle began dipping her toes in the popular music ...
LUKE JACKSON – Tall Tales And Rumours (First Take Records FTCD002)
I never fail to be impressed by Luke Jackson. He is still only in his early twenties, has a voice that many more experienced singers ...
Doghouse Roses announce new album
Glasgow’s Doghouse Roses once more present their unique take on contemporary folk and reaffirm that they are “Something a little bit special” (The List) with ...
WINTER MOUNTAIN – I Swear I Flew (Astral Fox WMISIF001CD)
Originally twin peaks, the departure of Martin Smyth has seen a change in the topography, meaning I Swear I Flew, the follow up to the eponymous ...
BILLY BRAGG & JOE HENRY – live at G Live, Guildford
Shine A Light, the album of railroad songs recorded by Billy Bragg & Joe Henry on their epic train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles ...
WILL VARLEY – Kingsdown Sundown (Extra Mile Recordings XMR124CD)
If the time was ever ripe for a few protest songs it is now and Will Varley duly obliges on Kingsdown Sundown, his fourth full-length ...
EMILY SMITH – Songs For Christmas (White Fall Records WFRCD015)
The clocks have gone back, the days are shortening, so it must be time to settle down and look towards the festive season. And what ...
Steeleye Span and some real Dodgy Bastards
In an age when it is not uncommon for an artist to take five years to follow up a successful album, the creativity that Steeleye ...
RED MOON ROAD – Sorrows And Glories (Folkwit f0135)
Sorrows And Glories falls somewhere outside Folkwit’s usual sphere of influence but not by as much as I thought on first hearing. Red Moon Road ...
When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday
Singer-songwriter Jo Mango has teamed up with an array of songwriters, academic researchers and sustainability organisations to create the When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday project. The ...
Roddy Hart announces new album
If the Scots slang – which gives Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire’s Swithering its name – suggests any sort of indecisiveness at play, then ...
CARA DILLON – Upon A Winter’s Night (Charcoal CHARCCD008)
In the absence this year of a new Kate Rusby festive collection for folk fans to warm their chilly cockles, Cara Dillon, aided and abetted ...
HAT FITZ & CARA – After The Rain (own label)
The Australian blues scene is not one I'm particularly well-acquainted with, though I do remember a gig I attended in Fremantle over a decade ago ...
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