This week’s retro music trawl is built around artists who are not comedians but are frequently hilariously funny in their songs, to include @jakethackray.bsky.social #LoudonWainwrightIII #TomLehrer @randynewman.bsky.social #JonathanRichman #HalfManHalfBiscuit fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/20/o...

On ‘The Call,’ Montreal-based quartet Bellbird turn jazz presumptions upside down...Even as they run with carefree abandon, they never lose the listener... klofmag.com/2026/02/bell...

This week’s fresh new music recommendations come from #CatClyde #GENA @spencercullum.bsky.social @courtneybarnett.bsky.social #JohnAndrewsAndTheYawns #ClaypoolLennonDelirium so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/16/f...

This week’s six vintage music offerings are all on a theme of unusual, rare and nevertheless very welcome one-off collaborations and pairings including Leonard Cohen with Sonny Rollins and five other similarly scintillating picks… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/13/o...

This week’s half dozen new music recommendations come from #GingerMolasses @imwithherband.bsky.social #TylerBallgame #Squeeze #MartaDelGrandi #YoungFreshFellows so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/09/f...

This week’s selection of older tunes is all about acts who don’t get seen on TV enough and features #Teleman #PeggySue @andrewbirdmusic.bsky.social @inspiralcarpets.bsky.social #Spoon #Ween so tune in and find out here… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/06/o...

This weeks new music recommendations come from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net @billybragg.bsky.social @yolatengo.bsky.social #KathleenEdwards #TheMolotovs so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/02/02/f...

This week’s fresh new music recommendations come from @cravenfaults.bsky.social @ladynade.bsky.social @lucindawilliams.bsky.social #FoyVance @katherinepriddy.bsky.social #GreazyAlice so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/01/26/f...

This week’s new music recommendations feature tracks from @themagpiearc.bsky.social @muckandthemires.bsky.social #AmyLaVere #PeterGabriel #HenOgledd #Nevaris so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/01/19/f...

New music mix of the big hits (at Fruit Tree Records) of 2025 inc. @scottlavene.bsky.social @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social @waterboysmusic.bsky.social @laelneale.bsky.social #HalfManHalfBiscuit #SAULT #Galactic&IrmaThomas + many others so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/01/09/n...

First playlist of the year and it is, as has now become a good tradition of its own, wholly comprised of multi genre tracks all from 2025 so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2026/01/01/j...

Danny Neill shares his Top 10 Albums of 2025—from the “mesmerising” folk-rock of Hannah Frances to Kathryn Williams’ most personal collection to date, and the “outsider genius” of Richard Dawson to the pure vocals of Josienne Clarke. klofmag.com/2025/12/dann...

This week’s new music recommendations come from #LucyKitchen #Tiwayo #AmeliaCoburn @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social #AnnaVonHausswolff #TheMelancholyKings so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/12/01/f...

Latest live review features @tanitatikaram.bsky.social at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden on her new LP ‘LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right)’ tour… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/28/t...

This week’s new music recommendations are live and feature #MuireannBradley @thehangingstars.bsky.social #SabineMcCalla #CourtneyMarieAndrews @billybragg.bsky.social #TheTigerLillies so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/24/f...

This week’s new music recommendations feature #TheWavePictures @laelneale.bsky.social #AnnaTivel #Lemonheads #FotzsimonandBrogan #TheWood so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/17/f...

Latest live review features the chillingly macabre #TheTigerLillies at Wilton’s Music Hall in London fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/12/t...

This week’s new music recommendations come from @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social #VanityMirror #MichelleDavid #MoodBored @frankiecosmos.bsky.social so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/10/f...

Latest live review on Fruit Tree Records is @scottlavene.bsky.social at the Cambridge Portland Arms on 29th October fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/05/s...

This week’s new music recommendations feature #JosienneClarke #LenPrice3 #Tristen #NekoCase #GoodFlyingBirds #BlakeMills so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/03/f...

This months 75 track Spotify playlist is ready, link on the Fruit Tree Records site, this month accompanied by thoughts on #KenBurnsJazz and #SpringsteenDeliverMeFromNowhere so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/11/02/n...

This week’s retro music selection is #Halloween themed and features #KateBush #TomWaits #TigerLillies #TheRattles #DustySpringfield #RDeanTaylor so wig in and wig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/31/o...

This weeks half dozen new music recommendations come from #Bernardo #CourtneyBarnett #TheCords #SarahKateMorganLeoShannon #GriffLynch @theocelots.bsky.social so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/27/f...

Reviewed: Bob Dylan - Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol 18 (1956-1963). A meticulously curated, exhaustive set traces the evolution of an all-time legendary music figure from a teenage piano-basher to the folk generation’s leader at Carnegie Hall. klofmag.com/2025/10/bob-...

Josienne Clarke’s ‘Far From Nowhere’ is a giant leap of an album. By exposing the DNA of her work, Clarke unlocks immense power, resulting in her “grandest effort to date” and the “best music of an already distinguished career.” klofmag.com/2025/10/josi...

This week’s trip to retro music lane is all about the new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 18 release & some musicians he was rubbing shoulders with in 60s Greenwich Village including #PhilOchs #CarolynHester #JackElliott #FredNeil #KarenDalton #MalvinaReynolds fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/24/o...

This week’s fresh new music recommendations come from #ArimaEderra @emmaspollock.bsky.social #LoveSpells #RobinRossTWHowlers #IrainaMancini #LauraJurd so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/20/f...

This week’s selection of older tunes jumps back ten years to October 2015 with some of the tunes we we’re enjoying then including #Deradoorian #JohnHoward #NathanielRateliff #Widowspeak #LaLuz #TimoLassy so jump back and dig in… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/17/o...

This week’s new music recommendations from Fruit Tree Records features @flockofdimes.bsky.social #DavidByrne @waltertrout.bsky.social #Wednesday #TheOnlies #JalenNgonda so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/13/f...

This week’s new music recommendations feature #HannahFrances on @firetalkrecs.bsky.social #JessieKilguss #JoseJames #SouthernAvenue #GoGoPenguin and #U on @lexrecords.bsky.social so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/06/f...

The week’s selection of vintage music selections is a six-part tribute to the genius of sadly departed double bass legend #DannyThompson fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/03/o...

Take a musical diversion with the Fruit Tree Records monthly playlist, featuring five hours of multi genre & multiple era sounds presented on the site with thoughts on why @davidbowiereal.bsky.social is the king of the deluxe box sets. Dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/10/01/o...

Half a dozen fresh new music recommendations for a Monday morning this week to include #PINS #JeffTweedy @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @hmhbinfo.bsky.social #JoanShelley #JuliannaRiolino so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/09/29/f...

This week’s Old Fruit jumps back to 1985 and digs out six top music selections from the middle of what Elvis Costello once described as “the decade that taste forgot”… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/09/26/o...

New music recommendations for a Monday morning this week to include @scottlavene.bsky.social @foxwarrenhq.bsky.social #BretMckenzie #BrandeeYounger #CarsonMcHone #AdrianSherwood so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/09/22/f...

With photography by Sophie Reichert, Danny Neill reports back from End of the Road, a brilliantly curated festival that still gets it right. He shares some of the shining highlights from a fully-packed four days. klofmag.com/2025/09/live...

Here it is, after a short delay brought about by festival shenanigans, excursions and travel difficulties, the monthly multi-genre, eras spanning Fruit Tree Records 75 track monthly playlist so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/09/09/s...

Fresh new music recommendations for a Monday this week to include #EveAdams #CurtisHarding @theblackkeys.bsky.social #Laura-MaryCarter #TheOnlies #StudioElectrophonique so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/25/f...

Fresh new music recommendations for a Monday this week including #HONK #AnnickMichel #PaulKelly #PeterHolsapple @lukehaines.bsky.social #RichardThompson so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/18/f...

This weeks retro music recommendations jump back sixty years to 1965 with some wonderful footage of #Donovan #BobDylan #BuddyGuy #TheSorrows #ThePrettyThings #TheByrds so jump back dig in dig out fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/15/o...

This weeks half dozen new music recommendations are all jazz and feature @dodie.music-social.com #ManonMullener @bradmehldaumusic.com #AminaClaudineMyers #DavidWhiteTrio #JoshuaRedman so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/11/f...

This months Spotify playlist gets back to the usual mix of new and old music from multiple genres including rock, indie, folk, psych, blues, country, soul, jazz and classical alongside thoughts on #LiveAid following a fortieth anniversary re-watch… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/03/a...

This weeks retro half dozen looks at the other TV broadcast Wembley shows that followed in the years after #LiveAid inc. @direstraits77.bsky.social @tracychapmanonline.bsky.social #BeeGees @stevenvanzandt.bsky.social #LouReed @robertplant.com so jump back in… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/08/01/o...

Monday’s half dozen new music recommendations are @anoushkashankar.bsky.social #AnnieAndTheCaldwells #MairiMorrisonAndAlasdairRoberts @throwingmuses.bsky.social #NiamhBury @paulwellernews.bsky.social so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/28/f...

This weeks retro half dozen recommendations looks back ten years to July 2015 with selections from #JoRose #WolfAlice #FloMorrissey #BopEnglish #RichardThompson #MaxJury so dig back and dig in… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/25/o...

This weeks half dozen new music recommendations for a Monday afternoon include @kathrynwilliamsuk.bsky.social @joearmonjones.bsky.social #LolaKirke #KashusCulpepper @nelscline.bsky.social #AnnaLapwood so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/21/f...

Fresh on the website is my review of the 2025 Ely Folk Festival @elyfolkfestival.bsky.social honourable mentions including @eziolunedei.bsky.social @themagpiearc.bsky.social #TheCainPit #MartinSimpson #MonroesRevenge #DannyAndTheChampionsOfTheWorld & many more… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/17/e...

This weeks half dozen new music recommendations for a Monday evening come from #madelinekenney @titeband.bsky.social @cochemea.bsky.social @allodarlin.bsky.social @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social @laelneale.bsky.social so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/14/f...

This weeks older music recommendations is an @elyfolkfestival.bsky.social preview special including @themagpiearc.bsky.social #DannyAndTheChampionsOfTheWorld #FredsHouse #EllYTree @eziolunedei.bsky.social #TheCainPit so dig in and dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/11/o...

This weeks half dozen new music recommendations at Fruit Tree Records include tracks from @dutchinterior.bsky.social #ryansambol @stereolabgroop.bsky.social @kendramorris.bsky.social & music released on @jazzbaltic.bsky.social & #ATARecords so dig in & dig out… fruit-tree-records.com/2025/07/07/f...