Welcome to the archive of Simple Folk Radio.
A weekly show presented by a small, rag-tag group of friends with a common love of musics with folk and country sensibilities. We take turns playing records, airing exclusive sessions and live recordings while attempting to join the whole with liberal helpings of hokum and questionable insight as we share our latest obsessions with one another.
Between us all, you can expect to hear music and songs from foregrounds and the hinterlands of such scenes, non-scenes and spurious genres as alt-country, antifolk, appalachian, bluegrass, honky tonk, country rock, indie folk, Americana and the various nameless and formless backwoods hybrids which have traditionally graced the Simple Folk gramophone, all failing wonderfully to coalesce into a rich rustic radio stew.
Since modest beginnings in 2005, we've been crafting Simple Folk Radio as a way to champion live music, to promote artists, 'outsider' or otherwise, who are in no danger of bothering the pop charts anytime soon, who you may never have stumbled across if a loved one hadn't ranted about their merits in the late snug of an alehouse, and then to float their art aloft upon the airwaves.
With regard to that portfolio of sessions and live recordings which is already the stuff of legend, we have thus far been humbled by the input of such prestigious singers and players as Jeff and Jack Lewis, Great Lake Swimmers, Kimya Dawson, Charlie Parr, the Handsome Family, King Creosote, Akron/Family, Josh T Pearson, James Yorkston, Phosphorescent, Jana Hunter, Viking Moses, Stanley Brinks (aka Andre Herman Dune), Real Live Tigers, Okkervil River, Turner Cody, Eef Barzelay (aka Clem Snide), The Pictish Trail, Joe Gideon and the Shark and Mumford and Sons. Just to reel off a few.
We'd like to invite you to listen because we've admired you from afar as someone who clearly appreciates that, in these end times of psychic armageddon and pop tart meltdown, there's primal joys and a perverse warmth to be had from gathering with like minds to enjoy stringed instruments and naked songs of lust, wonder, despair and Herculean drinking
