The latest edition of our roundup of Folk album mini-reviews veers away from the “fiddles with everything” of the last batch of reviews and heads very definitely into the “mixed bag of folk” direction with perhaps […]
How AMAUK and Folk Alliance helped develop americana music recorded in Rotherham and Sheffield This can be seen as a companion piece to the recent interview with Declan O’Rourke (here) as both he and Lauren Housley […]
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson needs no introduction. The most nominated individual in the history of the BBC Folk Awards, Simpson is well known as an outstanding writer and musician. He had planned for his […]
This top-ten is meant to highlight acoustic guitar music, usually without vocals or vocals that are secondary to the music and not generally what the artist is known for. I had been thinking about John Fahey […]
The new Martin Simpson album ‘Rooted‘ emerges on Topic Records on August 30th (the deluxe 2CD version of the album will include a companion disc ‘Seeded‘). And if that title conjures up images of zipping up […]
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