Talisk reach virtuosic heights with with their latest album, DAWN. Alex Hurr takes a listen and finds a whole new world of enjoyment.
Piers Cawley delves into the epic Topic Records' collection, The Voice of the People, where you'll delight in the "crackle, hiss, wow and flutter" of these glorious old recordings.
Piers Cawley takes a listen to "Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing" and finds an intriguing, if slightly frustrating, collection.
Lisa Knapp releases a wonderfully eerie version of 'Cherry Tree Carol' [Roud 453], and we long for an album to follow suit.
It takes real skill for a musician to compose original tunes that can pass so completely for their traditional counterparts. On The Brickfields, Granny's Attic does just that.
From universal themes to the tiniest details, it takes it all in, and the listener who choses to spend forty minutes in its company comes out all the more enriched for it. One of 2020’s must-hear albums.
New Tradition by Ben Edge explores the world of folk traditions in a fascinating, non-traditional style, happening across psych-folk, punk and psychogeography along the way.
Rachel Wilkinson finds new narratives in Sam Sweeney's collection of old tunes as she listens to his latest EP, Solo.
A beautiful, pastoral, fingerpicking album, guaranteed to please fans of the English folk guitar troubadours of the 60s & 70s.
Percussionist, educator and folk enthusiast, Tom Gregory, pulls the Dust & Mischief Band together for a rousing run through a collection of Christmas standards and not-so-standards.
Lammas Fair, the new album from Henry Parker, is a highly accomplished collection from a folk guitarist of genuine note.
In creating Live at St George's, Jim Moray has managed to produce both a truly unique gem and a powerful historical document.
