BBC Folk Award winner Sam Carter has shared a new video for “Canadee-i-o” to herald his live album “Sam Carter Sings Nic Jones: Live At Celtic Connections,” recorded with the Jones family’s blessing. Drawing from across Jones’ catalogue, the album is the latest chapter in Carter’s lifelong devotion to an English folk revival giant, due 26th June via Captain Records.
Adam Ross has become a lynchpin of the ever-fertile Scottish scene. As a songwriter, he is deceptively gentle: his melodies scurry, bound or lope along, sometimes jaunty, sometimes suffused with a light melancholy, while his lyrics are always witty and frequently biting. “Bring On the Apathy”, his third album under his own name, is his most mature and rewarding yet.
Abigail Lapell, whose new album “Shadow Child” is out now, selects ten meaningful objects from her home for KLOF’s Off the Shelf series. Her picks span a wooden dala horse picked up in Stockholm while touring with baby Charlie, sand timers that help with focus, marionettes from a favourite music video, and the hood ornament of a beloved camper van.
