Salut! Folk

Colin Randall and friends on folk, folk-rock, and roots music, since 2007

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Christmas greetings to our readers

25 December, 2025
Old, new, borrowed, blue? What to do? (Part 3)

24 December, 2025
What we’ve been listening to in 2025 (Part 2)

23 December, 2025
Kathryn Ryan heads my old, new, borrowed and blue list

22 December, 2025
Celebrating seasonal songs from the folk tradition

21 December, 2025
From the North: The Quiet Songs of Natalie Wildgoose

19 December, 2025
Song of the Day: Katherine Priddy’s cauldron of controlled anger

4 December, 2025
A Scots folk music jukebox to celebrate St Andrew’s Day

30 November, 2025
It’s a wild world

28 November, 2025

Our 12 Seasonal Songs, from 2024

Twelve Days of Winter #1. Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa

24 December, 2024
12 Days of Winter #2: Thea Gilmore’s Midwinter Toast

23 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #3. O’Hooley and Tidow: Fairtytale of New York City

22 December, 2024
12 Days of Winter #4. Anne Briggs: The Snow It Melts The Soonest

21 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #5. Steeleye Span: Gaudete

20 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #6. Nic Jones: Little Pot Stove

19 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #7. Simon and Garfunkel: Silent Night/Seven O’clock News

18 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #8. Unthanks: The Holly and The Ivy

17 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #9. Lindisfarne: Winter Song

16 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #10. Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden: I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas

15 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #11. Watersons: Here We Go A-Wassailing

14 December, 2024
Twelve Days of Winter #12. Carnival Band with Maddy Prior: In Dulci Jubilo

13 December, 2024

Cover stories: whose version is the best?

If you want to find out what we’ve written about different artists on Salut! down the years, click on the Cateories button and scroll down:

Cover Story: Eric Bogle’s anti-war classic, No Man’s Land

11 November, 2025
Cover Story: Three Score and Ten by the Watersons or Gordon Bok

3 October, 2025
Cover Story: Tom Paine’s Bones

8 June, 2025

Watersons, Christmas, folk music, Jim Causley, Keith Christmas, Steeleye Span, Unthanks