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Folk music

October 2024

  • Yasmin Williams.

    Yasmin Williams, folk’s fantastical fingerpicker: ‘Guitar Hero shaped my experimental approach’

    After shredding on a video game axe during her teens, the American musician graduated to the real thing. She explains how her music chooses hope during dark times
  • Bob Dylan with his guitar on stage at Madison Square Garden in 1974 during his tour with The Band.

    Author Geoff Dyer on Bob Dylan: ‘The songs pour off his records like they’re written in my soul from him to me’

    Nobody ’Cept You, a newly released rarity, clocks in at under three minutes but contains multitudes, joining the dots between Dylan and DH Lawrence, and inadvertently echoing the spell the musician continues to cast
  • Leon Bridges with his guitar in sunny countryside

    Leon Bridges: Leon review – deliciously soulful confection with added country

    (Columbia)
    The musician’s emotional fourth album borrows liberally from the past but the themes are modern and the sound utterly timeless

September 2024

  • Frankie Archer.

    One to watch
    One to watch: Frankie Archer

  • Portrait of Willie Watson sitting barefoot on a carpet with his guitar

    Willie Watson: Willie Watson review – a former hell-raiser finds his voice

  • Mustafa.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Mustafa: Dunya review – poet’s songwriting is a little too beautiful for its own good

  • ‘I like being a one-man band’ … Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne with his melodeon and concertina

    Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on the ties between British and Caribbean folk music: ‘My ancestors could have heard these songs’

  • Folk album of the month
    The Rheingans Sisters: Start Close In review – a radical leap into darkness

  • Astrid Williamson: Shetland Suite review – a beautiful enchantment

  • Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

August 2024

  • From left to right; Playboy Carti, Janet Jackson, Wendy Eisenberg.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

  • Sumptuous … Eamon O'Leary and Nuala Kennedy.

    Folk album of the month
    Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary: Hydra review – sumptuous folk songs

  • Paul Simon, third from left, with Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo during the African Graceland tour, emerges as something of a hero in the book.

    ‘Steam will come out of readers’ ears!’: Joe Boyd on his epic, enraging history of global music

  • A member of Goblin Band performing live with the group.

    ‘Colonialism and nationalism, we’re rejecting all that’: the folk musicians rethinking Britishness

  • Other lives
    John White obituary

  • Other lives
    John Foreman obituary

  • One to watch
    One to watch: Paris Paloma

  • Time to celebrate all our wonderful folk music festivals

July 2024

  • The Maestros in Fusion ensemble.

    Maestros in Fusion review – virtuosic Indian ensemble knit two traditions together

  • Heather Wood with Royston Wood, left, and Peter Bellamy at a photo session for the 1967 Young Tradition LP So Cheerfully Round.

    Heather Wood obituary

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