by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Alexander Wolfe – I Can’t Get To Sleep
Alexander Wolfe is getting ready to release his fourth album later this year, and if the first single is anything to go by, this should be his breakthrough. Wolfe’s music has always come with plenty of real emotion, but ‘I…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Songs For Walter – Earwigging
When we first came across Songs for Walter, he was singing songs inspired by his grandfather. His beautiful debut album unfolded like a family photo album and touched emotional nerve endings throughout. But as Laurie Hulme prepares his second record,…
by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Session | Michael Baker
Michael Baker released his debut album Dust and Bone late last year. The album is a product of two years of full-on commitment to music, busking around Europe while living in his van and taking odd jobs to survive. The…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | John Smith – Far Too Good
John Smith doesn’t like to sit still for long. His fifth album, due out in May, will be called Headlong – a fitting title for a record written during touring stints with Lianne La Havas, Lisa Hannigan and others, not…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video | Roger Jaeger – Elevator
For Folk’s Sake is thrilled to share the latest music video release from Oklahoman singer-songwriter Roger Jaeger. The video acts as an accompaniment to the musician’s latest single, “Elevator”, and perfectly encapsulates the ethereal hopefulness emanating from the song’s soaring…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video premiere | Roxanne de Bastion – Heart of Stone
Roxanne de Bastion is really spoiling us right now. Just a couple of days on from her delightful session for us, she’s now handed us a first look at the video for her new single ‘Heart of Stone’, taken from…
by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Session | Roxanne de Bastion
Following on from recent our premiere of Roxanne de Bastion’s recent single, ‘Run’, we are extremely pleased to present Roxanne in session, with three songs from her forthcoming album Heirlooms and Hearsay. The main inspiration behind the album, which was…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Matthew Edwards & The Unfortunates – Birmingham
Matthew Edwards is back in Birmingham. After two decades living in the United States Edwards, formerly of The Music Lovers, has moved back to his hometown. Along the way, he gathered enough material for Folklore, his second album with the…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Darren Hayman with Judy Dyble – Upper Slaughter
One of, if not the, most beautiful folk projects of last year was volume one of Darren Hayman’s Thankful Villages – a journey around the UK’s 54 villages where all of their First World War soldiers returned from battle alive.…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on News | Loudon Wainwright III begins four nights in London
Loudon Wainwright III, the precociously talented songwriter and exemplary troubadour, is performing dates this weekend at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Father of the prodigious songwriters Rufus, Martha and Lucy Wainwright, Loudon is known for wildly entertaining narrative songs with an…