Featured Artist of the Month for December: Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne has a new Thanks EP to follow the acclaimed Revelation Road. She talks exclusively to FRUK about the new recording, being her own boss and running her own label.

Featured Artist of the Month for November: Antun Opic

Following on from the excellent FRUK session, we are very pleased to be bring you the brand new video for The Informer, from Antun Opic’s No Offense plus an exclusive interview.

We have some great Albums of the Month with indepth reviews, interviews and more. They include:
* The Gentle Good
* Benjamin William Pike
* Paper Beat Scissors
* Lonesome Southern Comfort Company
* Alasdair Roberts and Robin Robertson
* The Urban Folk Quartet
* Luke Sital-Singh
* John Parkes
* Eddi Reader
* Lal Waterson
* Israel Nash Gripka
* LAU
* Jason Isbell
* The Full English
* Cocos Lovers
* David Rotheray

All of these are included in our covermount mix below.
To view our latest Albums of the Month click here.

We've featured some great exclusive sessions recently including two great video sessions filmed by our good friends Baylis Gray:

Karine Polwart

An amazing video session from Karine Polwart Trio paying tribute to Michael Marra:
WATCH: Part 1 | Part 2

Martha Tilston

This was filmed at Purbeck Folk Festival this year, we managed to capture this performance of ‘More’ from Martha's album Machines of Love and Grace before the rain set in.
Watch it here

Charles Latham

and lastly...an audio session from Charles Latham who was touring the UK with Withered Hand and The Bobby McGees.
Listen to it here.

We've been featuring some great Songs of the Day recently which range from the well known to the not so well known such as Gareth Lee & Annie Baylis.
Click here to view them all, you'll find some pleasant surprises amongst them.

We recently asked KAN to write a guest tour blog for their recent trip to India. The band comprises of Brian Finnegan on flute (Flook), Aidan O’Rourke on fiddle (Lau), James Goodwin (percussion) and Ian Stephenson (guitar).
Start by reading Day One here

Upcoming Shows:
10/12/13 Tewkesbury at Roses Theatre
12/12/13 Driffield at Moonbeams
13/12/13 London at Kings Place
14/12/13 Gateshead at Old Town Hall

Tickets and Full Details

As usual we have tons of news which you can catch up on by clicking here

We even have some festival news would you believe! Sun, Sea and Sand in March: read about the Costa del Folk Festival 14th – 19th Mar 2014

Plus news of new releases from Emily Smith, Martin Green's new Crow Bones Album & Tour not forgetting new videos that we've premièred including Lisa Knapp's new video for Shipping Song.

There's heaps more news here

To download our December Covermount Mix click here.

The tracklisting is below:
00:00:00 Cocos Lovers - Under The Hawthorn Tree

00:03:53 North Mississippi Allstars - My Babe

00:05:19 The Lonesome Southern Comfort Company - When He's Down

00:10:01 The Urban Folk Quartet - Barnstorming

00:14:27 The Full English - Stand By Your Guns

00:17:55 John Parkes - Brand New Day

00:21:38 David Rotheray - Jolene's Song (Feat. Julie Murphy)

00:26:38 Alasdair Roberts And Robin Robertson - Farewell To The Fowler

00:30:16 Steve Tilston Trio - Beulah Road

00:34:09 Lal Waterson - Red Wine And Promises

00:37:03 Lau Vs Haiku Salut - Torsa

00:42:36 Benjamin William Pike - Just Passing Through

00:46:14 Eddi Reader - Babys Boat

00:49:27 The Gentle Good - Edau Gwyn

00:53:12 Israel Nash Gripka - Myer Canyon

00:58:41 Shelby Lynne - Call Me Up

01:02:42 Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up

01:11:19 Luke Sital-Singh - Tornado Town