A song a day, every day. From brand new tunes to elderly classics. We don’t promise to be constrained by genre, but we promise to recommend brilliant music.
https://soundcloud.com/hunsleymat/au-contraire/ Music doesn’t have to smack you round the face to grab your attention, something that Mat Hunsley evidently knows. This most unassuming lament packs as big a punch as something twice as loud and infinitely more banjoey. We’re aware…
Regular followers of this section of For Folk’s Sake will know we love a slow-build, so we’re pretty smitten with this new track ‘Tunnel’ by The Bronze Medal. Produced by Vageir Sigurosson, it’s the opening track from the band’s forthcoming…
It being July 4, we had to bring you something American, so here are Patchy Sanders out of Ashland, Oregon. Their music has been described as noir-grass. We’re not entirely sure what that means, but this song – ‘Darkest Skarlet…
You may remember we were impressed by Johanna Glaza’s debut EP Silence Is Kind six months or so back, so we’re excited that she has another one coming out. Her latest effort is called Letter To New York and this…
Anja McCloskey is back with a new album out later this year called Quincy Who Waits. Until then we have this intriguing taster – ‘Too Many Words’. We loved the ambiguity of her first album An Estimation, and this track as…
It’s a while since we’ve brought you anything approaching bluegrass, so here’s Sligo’s Rackhouse Pilfer. They released their latest album Love and Havoc earlier this year, to a warm reception. If the album title doesn’t tell you exactly what they’re…
Brighton-based artist Jacko Hooper releases his For You EP this very day. His Tom McRae-esque voice is front and centre of the four-track EP, as you will gather from the lead single ‘Egg Shells’. For You is the first official…
One of the folky treats we’ve caught on the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage this year was an acoustic performance by Nick Mulvey, which reminded us how much we love his debut album First Mind. So from that record, here’s ‘Nitrous’ –…
http://youtu.be/DlXbsBPeDDc Leeds five-piece Dancing Years will release ‘Places We’ve Roamed’ on July 7th. Written in Sweden, Dancing Years said that the track was inspired by long drives at night and is an ode to the Lake District. The stag do-themed…
To this song goes the honour. ‘Even The Darkness Has Arms’ is the first song every to be our Song of the Day TWICE. But when we featured it last September, we took a live version from a Seattle radio…