folk interviews Archives - Backseat Mafia

Meet: Katherine Priddy on Daybreaker, Collaborating with Simon Armitage and future plans

Katherine Priddy has long been celebrated for her poetic songwriting, but her latest collaboration takes that connection to a whole new level. Working with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Priddy has…

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Meet: Ahead of her new sixth album Wildfires, we speak with Polly Paulusma

Polly Paulusma’s sixth studio album, Wildfires, marks a bold new chapter in her illustrious career. Released on February 28th via One Little Independent Records and Wild Sound, this expansive double…

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Meet: Fin Greenall Of Fink As The Band Return With A Brand New Album; Listen To Latest Single ‘One Last Gift’

As a songwriter, Fin Greenall has worked side-by-side with artists like Amy Winehouse and John Legend, been kept waiting for a week in a New York hotel room by D’Angelo and collaborated with Bonobo and Nitin…

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Meet: The Intriguing And Blindly Brilliant Snow Ghosts

With three singles already released to the world from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Fell’, Snow Ghosts are set to unleash one of the best albums of the year. We…

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Rising: We speak to Berlin artist L’aupaire after recent single When I Fall

Once we heard ‘When I Fall’, the recent single from Berlin based Robert Laupert, a small signal of hope written in a difficult period in his life, and wrapped up…

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Rising: Meet La Bonte, and watch his new video for Don’t Let This Define Me

Ahead of the debut album under the moniker La Bonte, Don’t Let This Define Me, comes a single of the same name from the Southern Californian troubadour Garrett La Bonte,…

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Peggy Seeger - Autoharp by Vicki Sharp Photography

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Interview: Peggy Seeger – First Farewell

I had the absolute pleasure of catching up with folk icon Peggy Seeger recently to talk to her about her latest album First Farewell, which is out now on Red…

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Meet: We interview Shirley Collins ahead of her new album Hearts Ease

At Back Seat Mafia we are eagerly awaiting the release of sixties folk pioneer Shirley Collins new album ‘Heart’s Ease’ via Domino on 24th July. After 2016’s epic ‘Lodestar’ which…

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Meet: Modern Studies talk three tracks ahead of The Weight of the Sun release

We’re big fans of kosmische folk-rock quartet Modern Studies, and we’re thoroughly looking forward to the release of the bands third album ‘The Weight of the Sun’, out this Friday…

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Meet: We interview Lavinia Blackwall on her debut solo album Muggington Lane End

We’ve all been stuck inside for ages. Unless your one of our lovely key workers. What it has done is given us all time to listen to and appreciate music…

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