Whalebone

Follow the River is a tune written a few months back, in the strange, balmy days of early summer. The traffic noise had ceased for a while, birds were singing and the sun was shining, and cocooned in our studio…

Three million streams! 

Spotify didn’t exist when Whalebone first started and the idea of our music being played around the world would have been pretty unbelievable back then. Now our tunes are being played in over 70 countries worldwide… what…

'Caer Caradoc' is our latest release, and it’s out today!

Named after a hill in South Shropshire which we've climbed many times, Caer Caradoc is the latest tune in our dreamy, laid back nylon string guitar side project…

Last year we had a lot of fun touring with our Totally Plucked set, taking a lot of guitars and other guitary instruments - mandolin, bouzouki, baritone guitar - with us to gigs. At the time our plan was to…

Whoah! We've had an amazing response to Éan an Anro on Spotify! Huge thanks to everyone who has streamed, saved and added our tune to their playlists, it's surpassed 20,000 streams in 3 weeks which is record for us :)

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Huge thanks to Sarah Walker and Tandem Productions who played our version of Scarborough Fair on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds yesterday on the Sunday Morning Show! 

You can have a listen via the link below: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ml8s 

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'Bright Light of the Day' is our latest release, and it’s out today!

We’ve returned to steel string guitars for this tune, which started out with a distinctly Celtic feel but drifted west during rehearsals… Celtic Americana from…

We have a new release played on nylon string guitars. Thoughtful and reflective, the title “Éan an anro” translates into ‘bird of hardship’ in Gaeilge/Irish and figuratively describes a person who is content to be out in all…

Here's our latest release - a cover of Bruce Springsteen's tune Nebraska. We've tried to recreate the moody feel of Bruce's original recording, which we have always loved. Click on the button below to listen and download or follow…

Here's the last video of our contribution to the FOLK Kindful Café project which aims to share the folklore of Shropshire. Barley Bridge is a song that was sung in Shropshire over 100 years ago. We've accompanied our version with…

Our hand curated Instrumental Mellow Chill Spotify playlist is full of relaxing, calm and gentle instrumental music from a wide range of our favourite artists. We update it regularly. You can stream and follow the playlist below:

We have over 1100 followers on our Spotify playlist Classic Rock Acoustic Instrumental Covers! If you'd like to listen to all our takes on classic tunes from Aerosmith to Led Zeppelin, they're all here - you can follow and stream…