Gigspanner Big Band – Turnstone: Album Review
Q: What’s big and bandy, and full of gigs? Clue: Turnstone is their new touchstone. A: Gigspanner Big Band!
Seuras Og
"Well, what sort of music do you like, Seuras?" Ever since that question was first aired by his mother a decade or six back he has struggled with the answer. And struggles still now. Call him a folkie, a country dude, a bluesman and he'll be happy, but don't forget the whiff of jazz, electronica and more. Not so keen on the charts, mind.
Paul Brady – The Archive: Boxset Review
Brady unpacks his backpack of the obscure and arcane, off-cuts and live, for a pick and mix of myriad delights.
Flook – Sanju: Album Review
Flook fly back in a flurry of flirtatious flutery.
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers – Uncharted: Album Review
Rachael McShane and her cartographer friends show the way and have made another fine map.
Manchester Folk Festival: Live Review
We’re at Manchester Folk festival in the city’s Northern Quarter for a feast of folk and more…
Lorraine Nash – All That I Can Be (Deluxe) : Album Review
The name Lorraine Nash may be new but the array of well-polished styles offered is ageless, yet still contemporary.
Reg Meuross – Fire & Dust, A Woody Guthrie Story: Album Review
Prodigious aural history and imaginings of Woody Guthrie, through some of Guthrie’s own songs and more written specially by Meuross.
The Move – Message From The Country (Remastered & Expanded): Album Review
Swansong from the Brummie Poppers turned Rockers, The Move, contains surprises and points to the future directions of flow.
Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver – Hinterland: Album Review
Knapp & Diver mingle heritage and history with studio magic to produce a gothic collision of some splendour.
An Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart – Live Review
A special evening and a privilege to be in the same room as Fowlis, Carpenter and Polwart.
Jenn Butterworth – Her By Design: Album Review
February folds with the reveal that the folk tradition has a new giant, hiding in plain sight. Until now. Step forward Jenn Butterworth.
Annie Dressner – For The Thrill Of It: Single Review
Punchy power pop to play loud and ponder from the ever brilliant Annie Dressner.
Jim Ghedi – Wasteland : Album Review
A pitch from the apocalypse, Jim Ghedi stares deep in the void on Wasteland.
The Delines – Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom: Album Review
More well-thumbed vignettes of gothic country noir, seeped in some Southern soul sauce from The Delines.
Dean Owens – Spirit Ridge: Album Review
Dean Owens, our favourite Leither is back, this time embroidering his wares with some well heeled Italianana; spaghetti (country and) western, maybe, for an album better than that pun.