David Rawlings & Gillian Welch Challenges come in many forms. For Gilliam Welch and David Rawlings one of the biggest was just surviving the hurricane that tore the roof off their Woodland Studio just as Covid was putting the world into a forced hibernation in 2020. By the light of an iPhone they moved boxes full of...
One of Europe’s best folk festivals returns to Cambridgeshire parkland with around 14,000 people attending across the three and a half days crammed with folk music from around the world. The line-up boasts big names and relative unknowns. There’s unanimous delight expressed from all four stages about playing at this prestigious festival, which continues to do long...
It’s said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but twelve years seems like a lifetime in the music industry. Yet fans waited with bated breath for the fire of Beachwood Sparks to be rekindled. With the release of Across the River of Stars, the long wait is finally over. The pieces that made the band unique...
Jake Xerxes Fussell seems like music’s answer to Dos Equis’ “the world’s most interesting man.” He hosts a radio show on North Carolina’s WHUP-FM in Hillsborough with Jefferson Currie II every Wednesday afternoon. Covering music from Bob Dylan and June Tabor to Nigerian soul music and Swedish fiddle tunes, they are both American folklorists, which only adds...
“It was a warts and all album in a way that I never had done before a funeral to the life I was living”, Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods muses on his seventh studio album, Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now. In it, he scrutinises his life and his choices and it is plain...
The world tends to play tricks on you when you least expect it. Though the Felice Brothers have been recording for almost two decades, singing songs of faith and despair, hope and heartbreak, dealing with every aspect of the human condition. Yet when it came time to release Valley of Abandoned Songs Ian Felice was content to...
Songwriter is the latest posthumously released album showcasing the talent of the great Johnny Cash – and this one is perhaps his most personal yet. Co-produced by his son John Carter Cash and longtime sound engineer for ‘The Man in Black’, David ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, Songwriter brings Cash’s wonderfully rich vocals into the modern era. After discovering his...
Lankum are unruly. While they play traditional Irish music, they don’t play it traditionally. At times this folk group seems closer to playing Irish heavy metal. They assault the senses one minute, then hit another button and come out with the sort of music one finds at the neighbourhood pub. It can be raucous as hell and...
The Decemberists are one of the most literate bands on the planet. Not that should be a shock since Colin Meloy is also a published author with a series of young adult books to his credit, not to mention a children’s book, a novel and a yet to be revealed theatrical project. This makes listening to the...
Richard Thompson makes music unlike anybody else in the recording industry, and he’s been doing it since the late 1960s. Jamming with Hendrix, covered by a who’s who of the recording industry, received an OBE from Queen Elizabeth. What’s left to prove? That he’s still relevant? That’s where Ship to Shore comes in. If there was ever...
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