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Artist: Ben Walker
Release Date: 14th September, 2018
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Record Label: Folkroom Records
Tracks: 4
Website:
A excellent new EP from Ben Walker a fantastic producer and one half of the multi award wining duo Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker. Ben a superb guitar player and this instrumental EP positively sparkles with musicianship and creatively.
Artist: John Smith
Release Date: 5th October, 2018
Genre: Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
Record Label: Commoner Records
Tracks: 10
Website: https://www.johnsmithjohnsmith.com
John Smith is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist from Devon, England. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and sold-out concert halls. He is a genuine folksinger, an inquisitive truth-seeker, devoted song interpreter, and enchanting writer. A contributor and collaborator, John quickly and effortlessly earns the esteem of his comrades and heroes. He has opened for folk greats including John Martyn, Davy Graham and John Renbourn, who called John Smith the future of folk music. On the contemporary side, he has also opened for Iron and Wine, Tinariwen, and Ben Howard. He has guested with artists such as Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Glen Hansard and Rodney Crowell. He has played guitar for artists such as David Gray, Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry and Joan Baez.
John described his reason for making Hummingbird "Ever since my teenage epiphany at the altar of Folk Music, hearing Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn for the first time, I have been a devotee. The six strings of my guitar have granted me access to a sacred space between things, the unconscious interweaving sensations that allow us that gentle buzz on hearing a good folk song. It was with this in mind that I returned to Sam Lakeman s Somerset studio in March of 2018, two years since recording my previous album Headlong in that same place, to commit six of my favourite folk songs to tape, alongside one cover version and three original songs. The tracks quickly took on their own shape in Sam s able hands. I invited several good friends to join me in this process: Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls"
Artist: KT Tunstall
Release Date: 5th October, 2018
Genre: Rock, Pop
Record Label: Jaydone
Tracks: 11
Website:
LCM favourite KT Tunstall releases her wonderful latest album ‘Wax’ in October. Really looking forward to this one :)
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Artist: Colter Wall
Release Date: 12th October, 2018
Genre: Country, Americana, Blues, Rock
Record Label: Young Mary Record Company
Tracks: 13
Website:
The excellent second album from Saskatoon based Americana singer-songwriter Colter Wall.
Artist: JP Cooper
Release Date: 6th October 2017
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Soul, Rock, Pop
Record Label: Universal / Island
Tracks: 13
Website: https://jpcoopermusic.com/
The excellent debut album by Manchester singer-songwriter JP Cooper
Artist: Tom Walker
Release Date: 19th October, 2018
Genre: Singer-Songwriter
Record Label: Relentless Records
Tracks: 13
Website: http://www.iamtomwalker.com/
‘What A Time To Be Alive’ is the great debut album from Scottish singer-songwriter Tom Walker.
Artist: Jillian Jacqueline
Release Date: 7th September, 2018
Genre: Country, Pop, Country Pop, SInger-Songwriter
Record Label: Big Loud Records
Tracks: 6
Website: https://www.jillianjacqueline.com/
Artist: Gavin James
Release Date: 26th October, 2018
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Pop
Record Label:
Tracks: 14
Website:
The very talented singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mary Erskine and her band return for her latest 11-track album 'Loose End' released via Seahorse Music.
After the success of her critically acclaimed top 20 album 'My Wild West', Lissie returns deeply emotive piano ballad Blood & Muscle, showcasing a power vocal performance that has become with synonymous with this always engaging musician. 'Don't You Give Up On Me' reached #23 in the UK Airplay Chart Critical Acclaim for her previous album 'My Wild West' "Undoubtedly her best album yet" - Q | "Another bittersweet triumph" - Independent on Sunday | 4* - The Guardian | 4* - The Star | 4* - Mail On Sunday | 5*- Uncut | "Wild West contains her most convincing songs yet" - Evening Standard | "Country rock calm flows through this album, her voice a mix of Stevie Nicks and Lana Del Rey" - Daily Express | "Lissie's third album is the country-rocking belle's fond farewell to Los Angeles" - Daily Mail | "Fits somewhere between the rustic charm of Emmylou Harris and a dash of Stevie Nicks" - The Times | "An album made by an artist who is still top of her game" - The 405 | "Spellbinding" - Red Bull | "An intoxicating return" - Clash.
After releasing an excellent and one of our LCM featured albums 'To My Roots' in 2017, Emma returns with a brand new EP entitled 'Atoms'. It's being crowd-funded and released through Pledge music with a release date planned towards the end of 2018.
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Botany Bay is the third studio album by Hertfordshire based singer-songwriter Kelly Oliver. It's a full, traditional English folk album, with all the songs collected from Kelly's home county of Hertfordshire. With production from Stu Hanna and all the songs arranged by Hanna & Oliver, this album is a new, contemporary take on the English folk tradition. The album also features
Phil Beer (fiddle), Toby Shaer (flutes, whistles, harmonium), Jamie Francis (banjo), Lukas Drinkwater (double bass), Evan Carson (bodhran, percussion) and Stu Hanna (mandola, piano).
John's wonderful new album is the first of new original material in almost 13 years. A album to be loved and savored.
The excellent brand new album from London singer-songwriter Gabrielle is her first in 11 years. It marks 25 years since the release of her debut single, 'Dreams'. The #1 single stormed the charts all over Europe and Australia, going gold in the UK and cementing Gabrielle as one of the most exciting new names in pop music. Two and a half decades later, Under My Skin, is sure to remind the world of Gabrielle's signature, heart-warming, soul-stirring voice.
Artist: Passenger
Release Date: 31st August, 2018
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Folk
Record Label: Black Crow Records
Tracks: 10
Website: https://passengermusic.com/
Mike Rosenberg is Passenger, the Brighton-born singer/songwriter known for busking his way to the global hit "Let Her Go", which topped the charts in 19 countries. Produced by Mike, along with longtime collaborator Chris Vallejo, his tenth studio album ‘Runaway’ is largely inspired by the North American landscape and geography, both musically and lyrically and taps into Rosenberg's family roots in New Jersey. This brings a fresh new approach and sound and speaks to the road going traveler in all of us. He explains that epic opener "Hell Or High Water," "... was the first song I wrote for this new record. It's a song about trying to get you're head around the complexities of relationships and why, ultimately, a lot of them don't work out."