This week’s retro slot features Ireland’s Energy Orchard, the late and much missed Bap Kennedy’s first band. There’s a new tribute EP out now (reviewed on Americana UK earlier this week) with all proceeds going to Belfast’s Marie Curie hospice. You should get it. Have a great weekend everyone.
That's it for another week from us dear reader and rather than leave you with something new for once, we're playing out for the weekend with a track from the late Bap Kennedy's old band Energy Orchard which some of you more long in the tooth might remember. Some of…
'Lavender' is the title song of Gemma Laurence's new album due out this November on Better Company Records/The Orchard. It's a song that questions a lot of situations and finds that there is actually an explanation for everything that is going on. Not an easy resolution, perhaps. Gemma told Americana…
'Valley Of Heart's Delight' is the new album from which the single 'Lowland Trail' is taken. It's a richly warm and fundamentally optimistic folk song which uses a cattle drive as a metaphor for finding a positive route to an easier future: "cattle pushing high up the canyon side /…
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