Hope Is the Thing With Feathers is a sort of homecoming for Rhiannon Giddens. The folk singer and string musician first gained acclaim for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group dedicated to preserving traditional string band music of North Carolina. Since 2015, her solo career has taken her far afield, exploring the tributaries that flow from the folk music of the Carolinas: discovering austere, arty branches through her work with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi and adding enough polish to her essential sound on 2023’s You’re the One so it resembled a crossover.
A slight echo of You’re the One’s smooth assurance surfaces on her new record via “Carolina Rain.” The tune is broad and insistent enough…
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Since 2012, Sam Sodomsky has quietly released lyrically elegant, musically sophisticated albums under the moniker 
For over 20 years now, 
Ten years ago, on Do Easy – an album made with her twin sister as Tasseomancy – 
Dublin’s traditional music scene is very much alive and kicking. Amongst its contemporary flag-bearers are Patrick ‘Paahto’ Cummins and John Francis Flynn, aka Paahto & The Bull, two musicians who have become significant players on the scene. While they notably helped form the traditional Irish band Skipper’s Alley in 2013, the pair began playing together back in 2011 and during COVID began looking at music as a duo.
Porchlight is Paige Anderson’s first release since becoming the sole frontperson of 
Melbourne-born, Berlin-based singer-songwriter 
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Sometimes a project has so much potential, so much more to give beyond its original iteration, that it seems to take on a life of its own. This is certainly the case with 
Cat Stevens’ Buddha and the Chocolate Box, originally released in 1974, is the latest title in the singer-songwriter’s venerable cat-o-log to get the remastered reissue treatment. One of Yusuf’s four consecutive LPs to reach the top three in both the United States and Great Britain and his sixth A&M release overall, Buddha returns September 4 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
The dawn of the British folk revival broke in 1965 when Bert Jansch’s “folk-baroque” finger style revolutionised tradition, providing the early morning light for a burgeoning psychedelic scene which, by 1972 had traveled from folk clubs to the high-concept landscapes of progressive rock, exemplified by the Eastern-tinged sitar-guitar on Yes’s ‘Siberian Khatru’.
Ian Prowse has been making music for more than 30 years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums under his own name. Having recently been inducted into the Liverpool Legends Hall of Fame, No Names, his latest release, finds him involving other similarly engaged souls such as Elvis Costello, Steve Wickham, and Damien Dempsey.
Before her first release as a solo artist, songwriter and producer,