Official Folk Albums Chart Show—5th May 2026

About this episode

Kris Drever discusses his new album and shares insights on folk music alongside various artists' music.

Kris Drever is Matthew’s guest on this month’s show, talking about the inspiration behind his new album “Doing This For Love”. There’s also music from Laura Marling, Joshua Burnside, Seafret, Spencer Cullum, Pictish Trail, the Marsh Family and Jenn Butterworth. Lucy Shields has the album release and gig news and Matthew unveils the next episode of Folk on Foot. --- We rely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either... Become a member and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfoot Or just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfoot Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Bluesky/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot --- Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Matthew Bannister

Guest: Kris Drever

Topics covered

• Folk music
• Album release
• Interviews
• Music news
• Live gigs

Keywords

• Kris Drever
• Doing This For Love
• Folk music
• Laura Marling
• Album release
• Music news
• Interviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Folk on Foot, Folk Forecast, Acast

Books & works: Doing This For Love

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