Perfection is not attainable, but “Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Outsider” gets close.

Described as “like a young Billie Holiday gate-crashing a Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones recording session”, blues and roots duo Ma Polaine’s ...

Seth Lakeman - Ballads of the Broken Few

British folk crossover Seth Lakeman turns in one of the most organic records of his car...

Wildwood Kin’s - Warrior Daughter (Single)

I think we can all accept that there are not enough women in the music scene at the moment. Being an all female outfit can often been se...

The Young’uns - Another Man's Ground

I’ ve been closely following the progress of these Teesside lads over the decade since I experienced their tentative early outing on a s...

Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade of Time

Sam Lee’s American debut The Fade in Time presents an artistic wanderer with a deep reverence for the British folk tradition, an ear tu...

Sam Lee - The Fade in Time

(The previous album was better, but he still got it. The video I picked features Freda Black, who sings this traditional British Roma...

The Curst Sons

The Curst Sons have been playing their powerful stripped back take on early American traditional music since 1998.  Performing mainly origin...