Here’s my top ten. I always feel the need to do a little introduction, since I’m aware of how rapidly my (our) tastes change. That said, I still return to my top three from last year all the time; I […]
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Last night, fittingly on the eve of St Andrew’s Day, I saw Capercaillie’s show at the QEH in London. While I recognise ND is about Americana, it is also about roots music and few can match Capercaillie’s understanding and command […]
Great material, great playing, a little bit more contemporary sounding than previous CDs. With a great first video, “The American Pickers”, which has the help of Dierks Bentley on vocals and guitar and Mike Wolfe ,from the show, the video […]
Having spent nearly nine months carefully crafting “High Tide”, Stan Wells’s debut album is a testament to perseverance, hard work and the sublime spirit of never letting go of one’s vision to create the perfect album. High Tide is the […]
Power-pop purveyor Sweet and ex-Bangle Hoffs, who paid tribute to some of their favorite songs of the sixties and seventies on this album’s two predecessors, take on the eighties in this 14-track collection. (An iTunes deluxe edition adds three more […]
You’re a happily married couple who share a 24-7 existence, mostly writing songs while roaming free in what’s left of the open country. Yet when you put your first two names together, the act sounds like a finger-snapping folk duo […]
The remastered re-release of Ashley Hutchings’ By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept is one of those rare albums that is so beautiful it can re-ignite a genre as it leads music lovers to rediscover an artist. It’s no overstatement to […]
With the end of the year upon us now in a matter of weeks, the time has come to cast your vote for the best albums of 2013. Each year, we turn the spotlight to you folks, to come up […]
They call him the human jukebox. But Sleepy Labeef is more than just a guy whose buttons you push to reproduce somebody else’s sounds. When Sleepy wraps his tonsils around a tune, he owns it, blasting out at you with […]
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