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From the Archive: Alasdair Roberts and James Green – Plaint of Lapwing

We revisit Alasdair Roberts and James Green's 2016 collaboration for Claypipe Music — an album built on friendship, cosmology, and one of folk music's…

Aug 6 • Alex Gallacher

Revisited: Everybody Calls Me Doc: Doc Watson – Two Live Albums

We dip into two of my favourite Doc Watson live albums, one of which was recorded by a teenager who later produced an album that ended up on NASA's…

Aug 4 • Alex Gallacher

Glen Hansard (1970-2026)

Following the sad news of the passing of Glen Hansard, we revisit his 2019 album 'This Wild Willing' - "I hope that history sees it as one of the finest…

Jul 30 • Alex Gallacher

Folklore & Playlist: The Hare – Old Turpin, Fast Traveller, Hedge-Springer, Wood Cat

The folkore of the hare...Middle English names, Seamus Heaney, Customs & Strange Beliefs, Shapeshifting Witches, and a Folk Music playlist

Jul 12 • Alex Gallacher

Revisited: Oklahoma Cherokee singer and songwriter Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey

Read our interview with Oklahoma Cherokee singer and songwriter Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey and a review of his album 'Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi'.

Jun 25 • Alex Gallacher

Folk Revisited: Shirley Collins — Part 3 (Desert Island Discs, Crowlink, Archangel Hill, and more Personal Favourites)

Part 3 of Folk Revisted Series on Shirley Collins: who else she likes to listen to, Desert Island Discs, Crowlink EP (2021) and Archangel Hill (2023)

Jun 18 • Alex Gallacher

Playlist: The History of James Joyce Music – Bloomsday

Derek Pyle highlights some Joyce-inspired music for Bloomsday, an annual celebration dedicated to Leopold Bloom, the “every man” hero in James Joyce’s…

Jun 17 • Alex Gallacher

Folk Revisited: Shirley Collins - A Topic Reissue, Heart's Ease & a Southern Journey (Revisited)

John Peel, The Sweet Primeroses (Review), House & Land Perform 'Ca the Yowes' for Shirley, Linda Thompson on Shirley, Heart’s Ease (Review) and a…

Jun 12 • Alex Gallacher

Folk Revisited: Shirley Collins returns to music & her 15 Favourite Songs

Shirley Collins returns to music in 2016, her 15 favourite songs, a review of her comeback album Lodestar, and a live review at The Roundhouse, London…

Jun 9 • Alex Gallacher

Track by Track: In The Half Light by Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke

We wind the clock back to 2021, and one of my all-time favourite EPs "In The Half Light"...Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke talk us through those songs.

Jun 3 • Alex Gallacher

The Monday Morning Brew #157 / Music Recommedations / Alex Neilson chats to Lavinia Blackwall

A new, very chilled, Monday Morning Brew Playlist...Alex Neilson chats to fellow ex-Trembling Bells member Lavinia Blackwall, plus three music…

Jun 1 • Alex Gallacher

We need this kind of music more than ever: Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Happy Today

"The joy of contemplative, considered collaboration...we need this kind of music more than ever in a time of diminishing attention spans..."

May 31 • Alex Gallacher

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