Martin Simpson

Dylan: our favourite early covers - and yours

Colin Randall writes: Salut! Live’s editors - Andrew Curry, Bill Taylor and I - are all Dylan fans to one degree or another. So are and have been lots of other artists and countless among them have dipped gratefully for... Read more →


Mainly Norfolk’s best folk records of 2024

Andrew Curry writes: At the end of each year, Reinhard Zierke, who runs the essential folk site Mainly Norfolk, publishes his list of the best records of the year. Each year, he chooses five record, of which four are ordered... Read more →


Introducing ‘Twelve Days of Winter’—a song a day

Andrew Curry writes: For the next 12 days here on Salut! Live we will be running a seasonal series called ‘12 Days of Winter’ which will celebrate folk song about this time of the year. Some of these will be... Read more →


Mojo’s Top Ten folk albums of 2024

Andrew Curry writes: it’s that time of the year when Best Of lists start to appear in the music press, and we noticed the Mojo list of best 10 folk albums squeezed into the margins of one of their pages... Read more →


Loft vinyl: Folk Roots’s compilation Square Roots

Andrew Curry writes: When I was doing some research here for my recent review of Oysterband’s Barbican concert, I realised that the first time that I had heard the band was on a compilation record released by Folk Roots magazine... Read more →


When people take notice: the Artist of the Week series so far

Colin Randall writes: Unlike the newspapers for which I have worked, on the staff or as a contributor, Salut! Live does not hold editorial conferences (nor, as you'll have noticed, does it publish a print edition). The three of us... Read more →