Andrew Curry writes: Over at our Facebook group, Linda Thompson is our Artist of the Week, partly to mark her recent release of Proxy Music. The songs are co-written by Thompson with a range of partners, including her son Teddy,... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: It is the seventh anniversary today of the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in Kensington in west London in 2017. Ever since the fire, Martin Simpson has included Leon Rosselson’s song Palaces of Gold in... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: We think that Richard Thompson’s new record, Ship to Shore, out today, is his 27th studio album since he left Fairport Convention, including the six he made with his first wife Linda and the record he made... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Over at the Salut! Live Facebook group our artist of the week is Alan Hull, the guiding spirit behind Lindisfarne who wrote many of their songs. A lot of these were written in a vastly creative three... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: We’d meant to put up a Welsh Song of the Day on Friday, by way of marking St. David’s Day, but we messed up. So here, without further delay, is a track from one of the doyennes... Read more →
Martyn Bennett—the ‘techno piper’—died young of cancer. But before that his unique mix of Scottish traditional music and rave culture had taken Scots folk music by storm. Our Song of the Day, ‘Hallaig’, remembers Bennett on the anniversary of his death. Read more →
