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STICK IN THE WHEEL From Here (From Here) www.stickinthewheel.com

The antidote to twee will eat you alive.

TOPETTE!! Chez Michel EP (Topette)

barnstrad@gmail.com Acoustic Anglo-French dance machinery.

PLAINSONG Reinventing Richard (Fledg’ling) www.fledglingrecords.co.uk

A new take on the songs of Richard Fariña.

MARIA SIMOGLOU ENSEMBLE

Minóre Manés (Buda) www.budamusique.com

Reviving old rebetika songs from Smyrna. VARIOUS ARTISTS

My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean (Nehi 3 CD Box) www.nehirecords.com

Early recordings of British songs in the USA.

YOUSSOU N’DOUR Fatteliku – Live In Athens 1987 (Real World) www.realworldrecords.com

Blistering set from Le Super Étoile De Dakar.

KAIA KATER Sorrow Bound (Kaia Kater) www.kaiakater.com

“The Ola Belle Reed of the 21st Century.”

JOHN RENBOURN The Attic Tapes (Riverboat) www.worldmusic.net

Evocative recordings from the early ’60s

STEVE TILSTON Truth To Tell (Hubris) www.stevetilston.com Al Pacino’s body double’s excellent latest.

KARDES TÜRKÜLER Best Of (Network) www.networkmedien.de Turkey’s exciting big folk band anthologised.

HOMEGROWN Bury, Lancs

15th – 17th October www.themet.biz/homegrown

DOM FLEMONS & MARTIN SIMPSON on tour

8th – 18th October martinsimpson.com domflemons.com