Socan *** Americana that covers all the bases Shame about the name and even the title music like this doesn’t need it. Look beneath the surface and you find a finger-picked, semi-acoustic melee where rockabilly meets country and blues meets folk, all as affectionately dealt with as by the Alvin brothers. Real Americana, even if …
Talking Cat *** Snappy modern folk that never forgets its roots. It’s been a long trek for Pilgrims’ Way whose previous album, WAYSIDE COURTESIES, came out in 2011. Now that singer Lucy Wright has finished her PhD they’re back; producer Jon Loomes joins to make the northern live folkie favourites (you have to be lively …
Legacy Recordings ** Come on, Willie, let’s really call the whole thing off Ah, they’re at it again. Another project to keep Willie busy at an age when he should perhaps have his feet up. This one is less unlikely than his reggae album, but is perhaps even less satisfying (even though it won’t have …
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Pretty Things REPUK SILK TORPEDO **** SAVAGE EYE **** BALBOA ISLAND **** LIVE AT THE BBC **** Pretty damn good Now the Pretty Things are far from a country band, yet the wild, pained sounds the band made – and make still – put them in a category of heartfelt acts, unfettered by style or …
Buddy Miller & Friends CAYAMO SESSIONS AT SEA New West Records [usr 3] Perfect showcase of gathered talents CAYAMO SESSIONS AT SEA is a sea cruise with a stellar line-up of Country’s finest aboard. On this new release Buddy Miller curates a set of live recording sessions featuring US stars and contributions from UK stalwarts. …
Amelia White HOME SWEET HOTEL White-Wolf Records [usr 4] Gritty and melodic set from Nashville singer-songwriter Amelia White’s voice has the craggy, jagged grit and pain of Lucinda Williams at her best but it also has a sweetness that Ms Williams doesn’t possess. Allied to White’s gift for melody, some mighty fine playing from her …
Mud Pie Records [usr 4] From East Anglia to the world In the fens and along the coasts of East Anglia, the blues burn with a fervour that the devoted each bring to their own individual pilgrimages and pleas to the unconverted to join this happy band. In the vanguard come The Dove and Boweevil …
New Mountain Music [usr 2] Terrific pickin’ and cool blues from a new young pretender. It’s always difficult to review an album of covers because there’s always an almost unavoidable tendency to compare what you hear to the originals and it doesn’t always end well. I’ve always believed that if an artist is going …
[usr 3] Irish musician delivers mysterious dreamy folk-inspired album Strawboy’s debut album, Tidal Islands was fittingly recorded in an old cinema projection room in Amsterdam, which adds to its quirkiness and experimental quality. The Irish musician, Ciarán O’Rourke (also known as The Trickster), was formerly a London-based session musician, yet in recent years he …
Demon Music Group ***** A musical tribute to one of Daniel’s heroes This is Daniel O’Donnell new release. During his amazing 30 years career in show business, life and music has taken the popular Irish singer down many roads, including a recent and very well-received appearance on one of Britain’s most popular television shows, ‘Strictly Come …
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