Jon Boden

Live Review: The Life & Songs of Martin Carthy, EartH (Theatre), London – 27th September 2025

October 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A first visit to EartH, the Hackney multi-venue performance space – and specifically a gig in the EartH Theatre venue, which is a converted and restored Art Deco cinema space. This celebration of the life and […]

Album art work for Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter's “Sea Song Sessions”

Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter “Sea Song Sessions”

September 23, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

Superb collection of maritime songs and sea shanties performed by the cream of Britain’s folk musicians. Britain is a maritime nation. The sea has long defined British identity, in terms of both how Britons view themselves […]

Live review: Jon Boden, Nettlebed Folk Club, Nettlebed – 31st January 2022

February 9, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

Located a few miles north of Reading in the beautiful Chilterns’ countryside, Nettlebed Folk Club has been bringing the cream of folk musicians, both old and new, to its small village hall for the best part […]

Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings “Rose In June” (Hudson Records, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Tim Martin 0

Jon Boden is best known as the leader of English folk band Bellowhead. This new album, his fourth solo work, is more diverse in sound and feel than his former group, despite relying at least partly on […]

Jon Boden’s fourth solo album out soon, tour to follow

September 17, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Jon Boden’s fourth solo album has been announced – it’s called ‘Rose in June‘ and will be out on Hudson Records on the 1st of November. It isn’t the direct follow up to 2017’s ‘Afterglow‘ which […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

News

Red Rooster announce 2020 festival line-up

November 29, 2019 0

The always excellent Red Rooster festival has announced the first line-up for 2020, a 3-day event which takes place in the parkland and woods of Euston Hall, Suffolk from May 28th –30th. Described as “a good-time […]

Features

The top 10 Lori McKenna songs

May 5, 2020 3

I first discovered Lori McKenna in maybe little of an unusual way: while you may only know Mandy Moore as an actress, or have a vague memory of her limited success in the UK as a […]

Tracks

Houndmouth “Las Vegas” – Ooooooh…..Las Vegas

August 13, 2021 0

Houndmouth have an upcoming release, ‘Good For You‘, their first on Dualtone Records with a release date of November 5th. Today’s song is actually the album’s closer, a raucous rollicking rock song of having but one […]

Live Review: The Life & Songs of Martin Carthy, EartH (Theatre), London – 27th September 2025

Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter “Sea Song Sessions”

Live review: Jon Boden, Nettlebed Folk Club, Nettlebed – 31st January 2022

Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings “Rose In June” (Hudson Records, 2019)

Jon Boden’s fourth solo album out soon, tour to follow

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”