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Fairport Convention announce acts for 2026 Cropredy festival

December 15, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

After a sold-out edition in 2025, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention returns for 2026 with a trademark line-up of folk and rock heavyweights, alongside some of the UK’s most established and upcoming talent. Taking place across the 13th, […]

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking. There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another. No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]

Back with a bang! A bigger and more diverse Cambridge Folk Festival returns with the first acts announcement

November 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

One of the most celebrated events in the UK summer calendar, Cambridge Folk Festival returns in 2026 with multi-venue, city-wide events, culminating in a 2-day Festival on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August, at the festival’s […]

Gate To Southwell announces first names for 2026 – at last some good festival news

October 7, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

As some festivals stumble in the current economic climate, others grit their teeth and march forward despite the headwinds, and the “Gate To Southwell Festival” organisers are doing just that with the news that, true to […]

Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

August 21, 2025 Oliver Gray 1

Sedentary performers were prominent at Folk In The Park. Richard Thompson had fallen down some stairs, while Tom Robinson was suffering from a more prosaic hernia. Poor Eddi Reader, meanwhile, had fallen ill but… The Show […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
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@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
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Angelo De Augustine “Angel In Plainclothes”

May 14, 2026 0

Life-affirming collection from Sufjan Stevens cohort. It’s incredibly distressing, but there have been some heartbreaking news stories recently of musicians experiencing life-changing ailments and the ensuing pain and anguish they experience trying to recover. This is […]

Fruit Bats “That Goddamn Sun” – when will it be my time

May 14, 2026 0

It was all going so well, wasn’t it? We had a theme – a great theme – running through this week’s Tracks and now we’ve gone and thrown it all away. Alas. Alack. Oh well, let’s […]

Video Premiere: Bob Sumner “Baby I Know”

May 14, 2026 0

We’re delighted to premiere the latest video from Canadian singer-songwriter Bob Sumner. Baby I Know is a typically melodic, country-infused ballad that showcases Sumner’s outstanding voice. Smooth and resonant, sweetly melancholic, rising high before dipping low […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

Album Reviews

Windmills and Giants “Are We There Yet?”

June 29, 2021 0

New Scandinavian Americana with a slice of melodic jangle-pop. ‘Are We There Yet?‘ is the third collection from Norwegian duo Windmills and Giants. They cite influences such as Jason Isbell and Iron and Wine, and claim […]

Tracks

Kim Richey “Chase Wild Horses” – Listen

March 16, 2018 0

Kim Richey is mixing with the right people – on the first single from her new album ‘Edgelands’ she had Chuck Prophet contributing, and elsewhere on the album there’s the likes of Robyn Hitchcock and Kim’s […]

AmericanA to Z

AmericanA to Z – Lone Justice

April 9, 2019 0

Back in 1985 ‘The Elite’ to me was anyone with access to MTV or a video cassette recorder, or both. Exploring new music was not easy, you could read about new bands in the weekly inkies, […]