Author: Ian Parker

Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.

#592 Haley Bonar – I Can Change

Haley Bonar will return in August with her sophomore record Impossible Dream, the follow-up to 2014’s The Last War. This week she’s unveiled lead single ‘I Can Change’, a breezy number which on the surface sounds ideal for spring, although…

#590 Mutual Benefit – The Hereafter

Mutual Benefit (AKA Jordan Lee) will release new album Skip A Sinking Stone later this month and has today unveiled the album’s closing track ‘The Hereafter’. The new album is in large part a reflection on the success of debut…

#588 Crosby, Stills & Nash – Guinevere

Sadly, it seems Crosby, Stills & Nash (and occasionally Young) are now definitively over in any form. First there was Young’s feud with Crosby over comments the former Byrd made about his girlfriend Daryl Hannah, and then Graham Nash took…

Video Premiere | Jasmine Rodgers – Icicles

As the daughter of a Japanese poet and Free/Bad Company/Queen vocalist Paul Rodgers, it’s no surprise that music pours out of Jasmine Rodgers. She spent the early 2000s performing and recording with Boa after joining her brother’s band, and has…

Record Store Day | Shopping Guide K-Z

In case you hadn’t gathered, Saturday is Record Store Day. The A-J section of our pick of the 500+ special releases is here, and now for the rest of the alphabet. All those caveats about the prices being a guide…

Record Store Day | Shopping Guide A-J

Have you done your homework ahead of Record Store Day? With more than 500 releases on their way this Saturday there is a mass of stuff to get your teeth into, but if you’re running out of time before heading…

Playlist | Matthew & The Atlas pick their favourite artists

Matthew & the Atlas are ready to return with their fine new record Temple, which is due out on April 22 via Communion. Written in his home studio in Farnborough but recorded in East Nashville with electronic folk duo Foreign…

Session premiere | Sam Jordan & The Dead Boys – Sister

The first thing that strikes you is Sam Jordan’s incredible voice. We could waste time comparing his rich baritone with some other outstanding crooners, but we’re wagering that if we wait a little while he’ll become a reference point himself.…

Premiere | Long Tall Jefferson – Pharaoh

Long Tall Jefferson has taken a long road to delivering his debut album. Described as a ‘wanderer by trade’, he’s collected the songs which make up I Want My Honey Back during travels which have seen him living in Berlin,…