Some Kind of Jubilee is more than an album, it’s a living testament to a lifetime immersed in music. For acclaimed folk artist Martin Simpson, this release reflects not just a remarkable 50-year recording career, but over six decades shaped by [...]
Widely hailed as one of the greatest folk albums ever recorded, Dick Gaughan's Handful of Earth returns in a stunning new heavyweight LP reissue -next January. First released in 1981, the album captured Gaughan at the height of his powers, blending [...]
June Tabor & Oysterband's 'Freedom And Rain' (1990) was hailed one of the finest collaborative folk albums of the past 4 decades. Bringing together the immense, individual talents of the sublime English folk singer Tabor and the raucous roots rebels [...]
We're thrilled to see Ted Olson's liner notes for Nothing But Green Willow, last year's album from Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz, nominated for this year's IBMA Industry Awards in the Liner Notes of the Year category. The IBMA Industry Awards, [...]
We’ve gone back to the original tapes of Anne Briggs’ eponymous debut album, commissioned one of the UK’s top mastering engineers to remaster it and in doing so, have unearthed four previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions! Incredible as it may sound, [...]
Martin Simpson is not a man to sit still for very long. Undoubtedly one of the hardest-touring musicians on the UK folk/roots circuit, he also averages a brand new studio album almost every two years. Skydancers, his 12th full length [...]
Angeline Morrison's critically acclaimed album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience is repressed on 8th March on green opaque vinyl 'The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience,' released on Topic Records in October 2022, lifted [...]
In the early 1960s, the approach Martin Carthy took to folk music was nothing short of revolutionary, albeit a relatively quiet revolution befitting of his humble nature. You wouldn’t find Carthy’s music clambering up the singles charts; his was not [...]
‘Sea Song Sessions’ is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter. The artists celebrated the release of the album of the same name in September 2022 with [...]
Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz have announced their new collaborative album, ‘Nothing But Green Willow : The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry,’ out September 29th on Topic Records. “These are mysterious songs - that’s what sets them apart from [...]
We're thrilled to be releasing Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay, the self-titled second album from two of the UK folk scene's finest guitarists, which will be available from 26 May. Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay are both prolific, praised and [...]
Originally released on Topic in 1965, ‘Frost And Fire : A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs’ was the debut album by The Watersons, a fledgling folk group from Hull, Yorkshire. Comprised of Norma, Mike, and Lal (Elaine) Waterson, with [...]