Karine Polwart

Carpenter, Fowlis, Polwart “A Heart That Never Closes” – voices in harmony

March 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

We have been remiss – although we did review the new album ‘Looking For The Thread‘ by CFP or, if you prefer (and who wouldn’t?) Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart and we did […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking For The Thread”

February 17, 2025 Tim Martin 2

A collaboration which draws career best performances from each of the partners on songs which could only have been the work of all three. Combining the talents of three highly individual artists into one album can […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart announce album, UK tour

November 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The power of three. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart have announced the release of their new album “Looking For The Thread” via Thirty Tigers on 24th January 2025, an exciting debut collaboration from […]

Dream Team Triple Header: Lambchop, Booker T Jones, Karine Polwart

June 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Now, you’re right, we normally only dip into the magical world of fantasy concerts as suggested by incongruously paired or tripled artists names in those oh so regular Songkick emails once a month. These are the […]

Folk by the Oak’s Spell Songs project live in April – tickets go on sale today

March 9, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Tickets go on sale today for an exclusive online stream of the live performance of Spell Songs. The project was commissioned by The Folk by the Oak festival team and filmed earlier this year during their […]

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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

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An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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 […]

Album Reviews

Rab Noakes “The Treatment Tapes EP” (Neon Records 2017)

February 27, 2017 0

This is an outstanding and unforgettable record for two reasons: Firstly, it shines musically, and secondly, it tells the specific story of the discovery and treatment of Rab’s tonsillar cancer, diagnosed early in 2015. For both […]

Album Reviews

Max Garćia Conover “Deer”

May 25, 2022 0

Poetic reflections on life and death. Describing Max Garćia Conover as “the king of silent” the promo commentary offers an intriguing contrast to an album that on the first couple of listens sounds like a stream […]

Album Reviews

The Mallett Brothers Band “Vive L’Acadie!” (Acadia Recording, 2018)

June 5, 2018 0

Can you ever have too much whiskey? Well, probably, but not if you are in The Mallett Brothers Band. The tracks on ‘Vive L’Acadie!’ are steeped in it. For a band from Maine, it’s just as […]

Carpenter, Fowlis, Polwart “A Heart That Never Closes” – voices in harmony

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking For The Thread”

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart announce album, UK tour

Dream Team Triple Header: Lambchop, Booker T Jones, Karine Polwart

Folk by the Oak’s Spell Songs project live in April – tickets go on sale today

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

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”