Kathleen Edwards – Lighthouse Arts Centre, Halifax, Canada 1st August 2026

Kathleen Edwards does not remember her previous concert stop off in Halifax with much warmth. Such is the feelgood happiness in the room tonight though, she is prepared to recall the now, thanks to…

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August 2026 Playlist

The name Wayne Rooney might not be one that readers of the music press, or musical criticism and appreciation in general, regularly associate with this particular field of the arts. For those who d…

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Sam And Louise Sullivan – Love And Devotion

This is a record made by a duo who were raised, schooled, and immersed in the folk tradition but who wish to reach for something far away from that world sonically. In fact, they are looking at the…

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Fresh Juice 27th July 2026

Margaret Glaspy – Michigan This is a mesmerising live rendition of the song that opens Margarets latest ‘I Am Both’ album, an arresting piece of folk‑leaning indie‑rock that clear…

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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 10

Welcome to Volume Ten in our mix show series of new music, latest release and soon-to-land gems, collectively known as Fresh Juice. This one takes in a mouth watering collection of up and coming so…

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Wills Van Doorn – Enduro

It might raise a few eyebrows if I were to describe making an out-and-out power pop album a brave move, in doing so creating a sit up and take notice statement release, but I believe this to be bot…

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Fresh Juice 20th July 2026

Rhiannon Giddens – Carolina Rain ‘Carolina Rain’ bursts forth as a vivid first glimpse of ‘Hope Is The Thing With Feathers,’ Rhiannon Giddens’ seventh studio album arr…

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Ely Folk Festival 2026 Review

This is not your average festival, not by a long stretch, which is why having tasted the thrill and ambience of Ely Folk Festival for the first time last year I have returned for more. And the mood…

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Almost Friends – Again, Not Again

I have found such delight in the discovery of this superb debut album by an act I had previously never heard of, that it prompted me to ponder with some frustration the crowded field they are about…

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Andrew Sa – American Rough

It might seem like country music has done all its evolving by this point, that the end game has been arrived at with its current mainstream pop sheen success. Where can it go from here other than r…

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Fresh Juice 6th July 2026

Dent May – I Remember Dent May’s latest release ‘I Remember’ is much like a postcard from the wide‑open creative world he built while making ‘The Big One,’ his seventh…

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July 2026 Playlist

This months playlist is accompanied by a photo feature. If you read my review of the latest Tift Merritt album you will have seen my referring to the first time I saw her at a festival about twenty…

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Richard Thompson – Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 25th June 2026

I have seen Richard Thompson live more times than I can remember over the past three decades, but this is the first time he has ever considered performing a strip. Not, I should add, because he has…

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Fresh Juice 29th June 2026

Beth Orton – Waiting Beth Orton’s new album is a stunning left‑turn from an artist who has spent three decades refusing to sit still. ‘The Ground Above’ demonstrates how she has moved beyond …

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Beth Orton – The Ground Above

Beth Orton first began to surface around thirty years ago, the charismatically detached voice that had featured a little on electronic dance tracks began to plough her own folktronica field with th…

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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 9

Welcome to Volume Nine in our series of new music, latest release and soon-to-land gems, collectively known as our Fresh Juice offerings. Well, it is the middle of a record breaking heatwave in the…

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Tift Merritt – Sugar

Country music is having a big moment these days, if anything it can plausibly be claimed this is the biggest era since the 1950s where the genre has become a major presence in the mainstream. And I…

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Fresh Juice 22nd June 2026

The Delines – Dilaudid Diane This features on one of the most quietly enduring albums I have heard this year, The Delines latest ‘The Set Up.’ This is the kind of slow‑burn storytelling only they c…

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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 5

Volume 5 of our shelf rifling dive into the deep Fruit Tree Records collection is a genre surfing run through some of the tracks that have excited and delighted over the past couple of weeks. These…

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Fresh Juice 15th June 2026

Yea-Ming And The Rumours – Sweet Opiate This track is one of the new ‘Residue!’ albums quietest gut‑punches, a song that distils Yea‑Ming Chen’s gift for turning heartbreak into something soft‑glow…

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Oral Habit – A Broken Chord

Isn’t it the truth that sometimes you do not know you are missing something until it comes right back staring you in the face? And so it was with this band, specifically my chance encounter with th…

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Joan As Police Woman – Real Life Evolution

It was the summer of 2006 when I chanced upon Joan Wasser for the first time, performing in her Joan As Police Woman guise, at a venue called the Spitz near central London’s Spitalfields Market. I …

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Fresh Juice 8th June 2026

Bedouine – Long Way To Fall ‘Long Way To Fall,’ is one of the standout moments on Bedouine’s new album ‘Neon Summer Skin.’ It arrives as the record’s first true exhale…

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Bity Booker – There’s No Song About A Stone

It is always a delight in the business of music discovery, record hunting and general audio thrill seeking, to come across an artist who you assume will be of a familiar type only for them to far e…

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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Folkelectric Vol. 2

This is the second chapter in our series exploring the moment folk and singer‑songwriter traditions were wired straight into the mains. This one picks up the voltage enhanced thrills where the firs…

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June 2026 Playlist

Now this might seem at odds with the name of this site and the record collecting missions I have attempted to set readers off on, but I have a confession to make; I have rekindled my love affair wi…

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Fresh Juice 1st June 2026

The Coral – Let The Music Play It is always a welcome return when The Coral announce new music and their latest album ‘388’ was officially released last week, following a low‑key,…

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Visible Cloaks – Paradessence

The more head scratching you do when first exposed to some albums, the better they turn out in the long run. That is definitely the case with the work of Visible Cloaks, a forward thinking duo who …

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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Sixties Garage Vol. 2

My journey into collecting and loving ’60s garage rock began more than thirty years ago, long before I fully understood what the term meant. By then I was already a devoted fan of sixties music in …

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