A comprehensive 60 track set with selections that were popular in the 2 great wars of the 20th century with the emphasis on British but with added American repertoire that came over from the US during those hard times. - Great Songs From The War Years (Box Set) by Various Artists (CD)
Throughout Richard Thompson's career, acoustic concerts have been among his fans most cherished experiences. So it's hard not to notice that there's something largely missing from his vast recordings catalog: solo acoustic versions of the classic songs that are the heart of those performances....
Where does one go after death and decay? asks Loudon Wainwright, contemplating the genesis of his new LP, Haven't Got The Blues (Yet). The answer: Alternate side street parking, of course! The follow up to 2012's acclaimed Older Than My Old Man Now is a 14-song, genre-busting collection of sharp,...
‘Heartleap' is Vashti Bunyan's long-awaited third LP, the follow-up to 2005's Lookaftering. It was written, recorded, edited, arranged and played largely by Vashti herself in her Edinburgh home studio over the past 7 years, it is a unique and entrancing collection of 10 songs forming what Vashti...
After seven posthumously released and well-received records, the tragic story of Eva Cassidy has passed into the realm of cult legend. The notoriously shy D. C. -area performer with the most powerfully gentle voice could render any song, no matter how well-known, no matter how frequently turned to...
Ruth Moody is a JUNO Award-winning songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba and founding member of the internationally renowned, Billboard-charting trio The Wailin' Jennys. She has performed in sold-out venues around the world, made numerous critically-acclaimed albums, and appeared more than a dozen...
When Athens, GA outfit the Packway Handle Band sought Jim White out to produce an album, the quintet learned he had a massive stash of bluegrass songs just waiting to be sprung on the world — and they would make the perfect slingshot. "When I'd heard 'em play a couple of years earlier," White says,...
Imaginational Anthem Vol. 7' is compiled by 20 year old guitarist Hayden Pedigo, from Amarillo, TX. Hayden has recently been featured in Vogue and The FADER behind his own recent album release, ‘Five Steps'. Hayden's curation represents a balanced cross-section across the modern solo acoustic...
Literate rocker Richard Thompson's new album, Sweet Warrior, is a return to his classic electric sound, his first plugged-in album since 2003's The Old Kit Bag. Filled with 14 songs of stories of loss and betrayal, the album also holds one of Thompson's most overtly political songs to date, "Dad's...
The first Thompson album to be recorded in the USA, Daring Adventures is a marked departure from its predecessors with a slicker, more commercial sound and backing provided by American session players. - Daring Adventures by Richard Thompson (CD)
Across a Crowded Room is the third solo album by Richard Thompson released in 1985. - Across A Crowded Room by Richard Thompson (CD)
The new live album, ‘Diamantes' was originally created for a tour of South America in 2014. It combines Spanish language songs culled from the 1988 recording, ‘Diamonds and Rust in the Bullring,' with some concert favourites and two newly recorded Portuguese songs, ‘O'Cangaceiro' and ‘Ate Amanha/Te...
Classic recordings hand-picked from the career of one of our greatest ever stars. After seven decades at the very top of the entertainment world, what better time could there be to celebrate the unique talents of Britain's very own Julie Andrews. Packed with sparkling recordings from Julie's...
Dream collaboration between celebrated British folk music doyenne and highly acclaimed American multi-genre, multi-instrumentalist Bottle is the first album by the dream duo - Eliza Carthy and Tim Eriksen. These highly regarded artists from either side of the Atlantic have come together and mixed...
Where the Wild Things Are' starts off with some of the most "pop" songs they've ever recorded, typified in the sweet and melodramatic "Arcana", and the classic pop inspired "Time Travel". Like Sendak's book of the same name, the album then proceeds into stranger and stranger territory, resulting in...
Sundown Over Ghost Town's twelve original songs reflect on recent changes in Jewell's life including the birth of her first child and returning to her hometown of Boise, Idaho. The music has a western feel evoking wide open spaces with the generous use of pedal steel and organ. LP will be available...
tba. - The Happiness Waltz by Josh Rouse (CD)
In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it's a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fxed ideal of identity doesn't do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and fnest album yet by The Weather Station...
The Sovereign Self . named after a line from Dennis Potter, the late television auteur . is the fifth album from Glasgow's Trembling Bells, their first since 2012's The Marble Downs, a collaboration with Will Oldham. It is a driving, dramatic and at times hallucinatory work, filled with a great...