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Folk Tracks Roundup – July 2025

July 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s a theme to this month’s roundup, which will become apparent as it progresses – as usual, it’s unplanned, it just fell out that way. And, as is usual with these track roundups, there’s a fair […]
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Video: Cole Stacey “Feast or Fire”

July 21, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest video from musician and songwriter Cole Stacey. Over a light, bright acoustic strum, high on the frets, Stacey delivers a powerfully emotional vocal. In this atmospheric version of the song, recorded live in […]
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Something for the weekend: Neal Casal “Someone Else’s Shoes”

July 18, 2025 Mark Whitfield 2
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with the second single to be released from the forthcoming Neal Casal archival album “No One Above You (The Early Years 1991–1998)”. […]
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Ketch Secor “Story The Crow Told Me”

July 18, 2025 Paul Kerr 4
A fine history lesson from Old Crow Medicine Show frontman. Say what you want about Old Crow Medicine Show (the main complaint being that they introduced ‘Wagon Wheel’ to thousands of street buskers), there’s no doubt […]
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Cambridge Folk Festival to return in 2026 – Hurrah!

July 18, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Cancelled for this year, but promising to be back, so the story ran in January and true to their word the organisers of the beloved Cambridge Folk Festival have announced that it is back in 2026 […]

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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]
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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]

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  • Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May
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  • Preview: Joe Martin to release new record and play spring and autumn UK tours
  • Classic Clips: Ryan Adams, The Infamous Stringdusters & Nicki Bluhm “Oh My Sweet Carolina” – Steven Colbert Show, 2017
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Here’s the americana winners from the 2017 Grammys

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Good morning everyone. The Boot website helpfully reports this morning the big winners in the categories you care about (a bit more than Adele vs Beyoncé) in last night’s Grammys.  They report: “The winners of the 2017 Grammy […]
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Jim Basnight “Stop The Words” – Silence is Golden!

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Recording since the late 1970s Jim Basnight has wracked up a lot of music, solo and in bands such as The Rockinghams and the Moberlys.  ‘Stop The Words‘ comes from his most recent download only album […]
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about this song by Georgia State Line & Patrick Wilson is that we’re listening to an Australian band.  Of course good music knows no boundaries, but not many capture that outsider […]

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