David Carroll & Friends – Bold Reynold Too: Album Review
David Carroll reprises his time walk through medieval prog/folk-rock mash; yet another bumper crop of vintage frolics.
Seuras Og
"Well, what sort of music do you like, Seuras?" Ever since that question was first aired by his mother a decade or six back he has struggled with the answer. And struggles still now. Call him a folkie, a country dude, a bluesman and he'll be happy, but don't forget the whiff of jazz, electronica and more. Not so keen on the charts, mind.
Sidmouth Folk Festival Preview: Opinion
Festival season is in full swing; we look ahead to another bash that we will be attending; Sidmouth Folk Festival.
Humanist – On The Edge Of A Lost And Lonely World : Album Review
Thoughts and songs from the edge, embracing both the beginning and the end. Humanist release their new record.
The Wilderness Yet – Westlin Winds : Album Review
The Wilderness Yet give an acapella masterclass, elegant and unadorned.
Love – Hare & Hounds, King’s Heath , B’ham: Live Review
The Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath plays host to Johnny Echols’ Love: Forever Changes and more, staying remarkably and robustly vibrant.
Ben De La Cour – Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham: Live Review
Songs of the soft white underbelly, delicate dirges of no small beauty. We’re in Birmingham to see Ben De La Cour.
Laura Jane Wilkie – Vent: Album Review
Fiddle music from Scotland, bareback and without frontiers. Genrify at your own risk.
New Forest Folk Festival 2024 : Live Review
New Forest Folk – The “Small Festival with a Big Line-Up”; exactly what it says on the tin, and a whole lot more.
DLÙ – Close To: Album Review
Glasgow’s Gaelic prodigies take a further giant step forward, taking trad into territories new, snapping at the heels of the established hierachies.
Boulder Fields – With All The Other Ghosts: Album Review
Charming latterday fare from the journeyman player, not afraid to wear his influences on a well-frayed sleeve.
Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds – Strange News Has Come To Town : Album Review
Strange? Certainly welcome, a further dose of East Susses Appalachiana from Bedford & Simmonds to charm the soul.
New Forest Folk Festival 2024: Preview
A look ahead to the 2024 new Forest Folk Festival.
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Broken Hearted Blue: Album Review
Friday nights should always be like this; hell, even on a Monday. Twangtastic!
Midsommar Round Up – Deep Dark Woods, Remorae, Krissy Matthews : Album Review(s)
With no connection bar their lateness, trad.arr. through a Saskatoon shutter, folktronica of an an anglo-french origin and blues from (ish) Norway.
Various Artists – Proxy Music: Album Review
Preternaturally good tranche of the Linda Thompson songbook. Even, largely, nominally without her. But she’s definitely there!