It’s no secret that it’s been a hard two years for the music industry. Cambridge Folk Festival organiser Rebecca Stewart acknowledges that tough context in the opening lines of the programme for this year’s Festival, the first since 2019. It’s…
First things first – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree is a very good record, nay, it is an extremely good record. Transcending the ‘folk’ tag attached to her following the release of her eponymous debut, Samantha Crain has produced…
People who go to End of the Road festival are just better than other people. They’re kinder, they’re cleverer, and they have unendingly beautiful souls. Apart from the guy standing next to us at tUnE yArDs on Sunday afternoon who…
There’s something about great music that seems to combine the earthly and the earthy with something a bit more ethereal. A truly great track can be as close as we heathens get to a religious experience. And while Samantha Crain…
Samantha Crain’s new album, out today in the UK on Full Time Hobby, is called Kid Face. This is because, Crain explains, she is regularly mistaken for a 16-year-old. “It gives me a great insight into people’s character and plenty…
We’re not ready to call time on 2013 yet, but we’ve already got something to look forward to next year with news that January will see the UK release on Samantha Crain’s debut album Kid Face after she signed to…