Beverley Martin: British singer whose nightmare marriage nearly killed her music dream

The folk artist and songwriter worked with Simon & Garfunkel and drew Barbra Streisand’s envy. Then she sank into an abusive relationship

Blues guitarist Dom Martin: ‘There was a lot of judgment about the drink and the drugs, from people who didn’t know my dad’

The Antrim man’s playing has prompted comparisons with Rory Gallagher

Jimmy Cliff: ‘I don’t reach my peak yet’

Ska and reggae legend on filming The Harder They Come and Jamaica’s rebel spirit

Joshua Burnside: Into the Depths of Hell – a singular Northern Irish talent

The album is a brooding, tense affair but neither is it any way a difficult listen

Little Hours: Now the Lights Have Changed – More Ed Sheeran than Van Morrison

Review: Donegal singer-songwriter’s lovelorn ballads pitched at stadiums but overcooked

Junior Brother: Pull the Right Rope review – The real paradoxical deal

Ronan Kealy’s style can sort the believers from the bemused

This Album Changed My Life: John Martyn – Solid Air (1973)

Cathy McGuinness of Dublin four-piece Pillow Queens on a revelatory record

Niall Thomas – Night Sky Blue album review: Inner city life

Marc O’Reilly: Human Herdings

Luka Bloom: Head & Heart

Giuliano Nistri: All the Songs in One Night

Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders

Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side

Doctor Millar: C48

Grey Reverend: A Hero’s Lie

A Hero’s Lie; Ninja Tune; 3 stars; Rock/Pop