Album Review | Little Sailor | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 With Elaine’s assured and sophisticated singing and fine players like Findlay Napier, Patsy Reid and Euan Burton this is a solid and quality debut album. “Next Friday Night” is a smooth opener, layered voices with a touch of Katie Melua class over … Continue reading Elaine Lennon – Elaine Lennon

Album Review | Matty Grooves | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 If you walk along the Fortis Green road in the heart of Muswell Hill, you will come across the old Fairport House, where the band would noisily rehearse back in 1967, taking part of their name from a wooden plaque screwed to … Continue reading Fairport Convention – Shuffle and Go

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Little did I know when I sat down to watch a performance of Neil Gore and John Kirkpatrick's folk opera Rouse' Ye Women! back in March, that almost a year later I would be sitting down to listen to the debut solo … Continue reading Rowan Godel – Where the Wild Horses Roam

Album Review | Cooking Vinyl | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 I stand in the dubious position of being undecided as to whether I prefer live or recorded music. Both have their good and not so good aspects. In the case of Sam Lee, I tend to sit very much on the fence … Continue reading Sam Lee – Old Wow

Album Review | 37d03d | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 I'm convinced that the American singer songwriter Anaïs Mitchell can do no wrong, a notion I first adopted after Young Man in America followed Hadestown back in 2012. Since then I've had the pleasure to have seen her perform a number of times, … Continue reading Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman

EP Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 There's no easing oneself into the music of Dana Immanuel and the Stolen Band, whose opening song and title track to their new EP "Mama's Codeine" hits like a shot of adrenaline once the frailed banjo leads you into the boudoir. It's … Continue reading Dana Immanuel and the Stolen Band – Mama's Codeine

Album Review | Reveal Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 After seeing the celebrated 'go to' guitarist in several line-ups over the years, usually seated alongside an extraordinary vocalist or sandwiched between equally extraordinary musicians, Ian Carr's own adventures as either a soloist or as the focal part of one of his … Continue reading Ian Carr and the Various Artists – I Like Your Taste in Music

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | 4/5 Frixx marks the twentieth anniversary of music making by the outstanding Finnish septet Frigg, their name taken from the old Norse for 'Beloved One' as well as the Norse goddess of love and fertility, yet unfortunately translated into something a little more disparaging … Continue reading Frigg – Frixx

Album Review | Clincart Music | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Some places make music, it comes out of the stones and the landscape. At one time all of these islands were alive with music, Michael Chapman veteran journeyman folk musician, describes the 60s revival as a time when there was a folk … Continue reading Various Artists – Sounds From the Great Garden

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Every now and again, an album pops up that you just can't stop listening to, which in turn makes you feel that all is good with the world as the virtual sun comes out and the winter goes away. On Mirador, all … Continue reading Fierce Flowers – Mirador