Give a girl a guitar and she'll gallop: more broadsheets from the Jess Silk barricades!

Dean Owens, our favourite Leither is back, with some well heeled Italianana; spaghetti (country and) western, for an album better than that pun.

Cynefin offers up a musical petition to maintain a language and way of life.

Unfamiliar name, with a quick scan of the contents of Fable suggesting nothing overly novel to be encountered, this was an immediate misstep. Female singers and the Gaelic songbook usually suggest …

Carpenter, Fowlis & Polwart. Astonishing, astounding, amazing. All of that. More.

Acoustic guitar toting singer songwriter and prolific social media queen, Jess Silk is at the Kitchen Garden Cafe. So is Seuras Og....

Sharon Shannon and her Big Band pay tribute to Shane in Brum.

Morris for both minors and matures, to absorb and enjoy. File the work of Sweeney , Harbron & Rutter under 'lovely'.

Hebrew covers of Leonard Cohen! Ska covers of Weird Al! Fingerpicked covers of Kraftwerk! And more of the year's best—and strangest—records.

Just in time for Santa comes Brigid Mae Power's "Songs for You," covering some of her father's favorites in a way both of the moment and eternal.

The three Swedish sisters that make up Baskery bring their banjo-punk sound to the ten Neil Young covers that make up "The Young Sessions."

Our tribute to "Electric Ladyland," Jimi Hendrix's third and final studio album in his lifetime, has genres ranging from 8-bit to world music.

My Darling Clementine at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish surmount the insurmountable.

A squeezebox-and -fiddletastic Christmas (plus) to soothe any a jaundiced ear. And all of those in the know. A Spiers & Oates production.

Wow! Blimey! All of that as neo-trad goes disco. New album - Pool - from Ross Ainslie.

Wafty dream-pop with a sense of heritage and permanence from The Innocence Mission.

Campbell & Lanagan. The evil Sinatra/Hazlewood, Birkin/Gainsbourg or is it Sonny and Cher. Re-issued gem for Lanegan's 60th.

Welsh power station closes with a flourish of inspired neo-trad on Nefydd by Calan.

he Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy. Jimmy Somerville, should you need reminding, was the idiosyncratic voice of both Bronski Beat an...

The Unthanks unleash a concept album to challenge the concepts of even the hardiest grinch, all performed with their ineffable idiosyncracy.

Jan Burns and Jon Doran embrace the seasonal baton with relish and it is anything but a turkey, vegetarian or otherwise. Hallelujah!

If not all around, fear certainly lurks under the surface, as Glasgow's Sea Kings pick up from where they left off, a decade ago.

All the Father John Misty's you need; all here together, mostly new and mainly keepers. He is legion.

Rising star, Malcolm, tells her story with verve and panache, a pot pourri of styles all well contained in her grasp, both way from and back to her true calling.