Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 4/5 Allison, Singer, Flautist from Ontario Canada is a self styled Celtic folk musician and performer. Words of Love, her forth solo album is a rich mix of Celtic traditional music, American or Canadian Folk and Bluegrass. For this album Allison leads an … Continue reading Allison Lupton – Words Of Love

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 4/5 Finn Paul has the perfect voice for his classic acoustic material, looking backwards it has the distinctive lilt of Donovan and a touch of more contemporary Nick Mulvay. Scottish singer songwriter and guitarist Finn draws on growing up in Perthshire and memories … Continue reading Finn Paul – Wind and Stone

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 Those of us with memories as long as a Camel track, will recall a time when Prog’s overblown concerts - an articulated lorry just for the giant Persian carpet for example -  resulted in a speedy return to the three minute pop … Continue reading Atlantaeum Flood – One Day

Album Review | MIG | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 Jack Bruce’s stately position in the history of popular music cannot be overstated. A stalwart of the British blues boom of the early 1960s and noted bassist with such outfits as Blues Incorporated and the Graham Bond Organisation, to the much more succinctly … Continue reading Various Artists – Sunshine of Your Love: A Concert for Jack Bruce

Album Review | First Take | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 It's perhaps remarkable that at just 25, Luke Jackson delivers his fifth album, when some musicians of this age are barely off the starting line.  It's even more remarkable that a 25 year-old can write such a song as "Baby Boomers", an … Continue reading Luke Jackson – Journals

Album Review | Glitterbeat Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 The Algerian singer, actress and activist Aziza Brahim returns with Sahari, her fourth studio album and her third released on the Glitterbeat label, which once again reflects the tragedy, turmoil and tradition of her homeland. Far from the Saharawi refugee camps of … Continue reading Aziza Brahim – Sahari

Album Review | Red Sky Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 Like most compilations that span decades, they usually provide a good place to start if you are not already familiar with a particular artist’s work. In the case of these thirty songs, the listener is formally introduced to the songwriting legacy … Continue reading Johnny Coppin – 30 Songs

Album Review | Bronson | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 3/5 Clever Square from Bologna have the dense, grainy sound of American indie rock. The disinterested knowing leer comes through in Giacomo D’Attorre’s vocals on “Are Glasses And Contacts Ruining Your Vision”. There are guitar sounds or bursts  rather than clever solos, long on … Continue reading Clever Square – Clever Square

Album Review | Song Circle Records | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 4/5 Franc Cinelli mixes the rich acoustic guitar of the classic folk singer songwriter with some more contemporary textures and beats. “Adventure / Love” has the feel of early Michael Chapman, with the chiming guitar, eastern raga like percussion and at times … Continue reading Franc Cinelli – Night Songs

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Catfish Crawl, the eighteenth album from Catfish Keith is the sound of one man and his acoustic guitar, having a superb time playing dexterous, feel good folk blues. A lifetime of digging into Delta music means Catfish Keith approaches the material with … Continue reading Catfish Keith – Catfish Crawl