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artwork for Ferran Orriols album "Darrere els horts / Behind The Orchard"

Ferran Orriols “Darrere Els Horts / Behind The Orchard”

May 9, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

Orriols’ sophomore album builds on the promise of his debut, musically defying borders and lyrically transcending language. Following on from his critically acclaimed debut album “PLATA (SILVER)”, released in 2023, Catalan singer-songwriter Ferran Orriols has returned […]

Book Review: In-Law Country – Geoffrey Himes “How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985”

May 9, 2025 Tim Martin 2

Published in association with The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this hefty (357 pages + notes) book examines what Himes calls “a musical movement of outsiders who, in time, became influential insiders.” As this […]

artwork for Mark Mulholland album "Fighting With Your Shadow"

Mark Mulholland “Fighting With Your Shadow”

May 9, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Unflagging optimism pervades the tales of a wandering musician. There’s something instantly appealing about the life of an artist who travels the world as they slowly build their body of work. A profusion of examples can […]

Folk Roundup – Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

May 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest Folk Roundup is a pretty mixed bag on what we (loosely) call Folk music, with the welcome return of a long-serving – but relatively small outputting – band in the form of Flook, as […]

Sam Robbins “So Much I Still Don’t See”

May 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Sunny and melodic folk-pop with thoughtful and philosophical words. “So Much I Still Don’t See” is Sam Robbins’ third album after his debut, “Finally Feeling Young” (2021) and 2022’s “Bigger Than in Between”. It is melodic […]