Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Sean Taylor is an institution, an acoustic folk blues musician with a little street snarl. He sees the good in people while telling it straight and manages to avoid ever being a drippy acoustic hippy. Sean, travelling only by train between gigs … Continue reading Sean Taylor – Live in London

Album Review | Tiny Mountain Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 It could be said of Keep on Running that it benefits enormously from the musical embellishments that appear throughout, not least the guitar, dobro and pedal steel courtesy of producer Steve Dawson, whose informed playing brings an extra sparkle to the … Continue reading Joe Edwards – Keep On Running

Album Review | Family Hour Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Having already made their mark on the acoustic music roots scene, both through their solo work and as part of other outfits, not least Nickel Creek, along with Chris Thile, siblings Sara and Sean Watkins return with an exceptionally raw and … Continue reading Watkins Family Hour – Brother Sister

Album Review | Thirty Tigers | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Jason Isbell returns with his regular band the 400 Unit and ten new songs, each of which further demonstrate Isbell’s credentials as one of the finest songwriters on the scene today. Using his own success and how to deal with it as … Continue reading Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Glasgow-based singer, guitarist and bouzouki player Luc McNally releases his delightful debut album, which consists of eight songs and tunes, some traditional, one or two self-penned while the others are borrowed from such notable sources as Mark Oliver Everett and Randy Newman. … Continue reading Luc McNally – Night Off

Album Review | Lulubug Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Even down to the colour of the cover, Will Pound’s A Day Will Come is a celebration of the European Union through and through, a veritable travelogue through the sounds and rhythms of twenty-seven countries, blown (and not forgetting sucked) through his … Continue reading Will Pound – A Day Will Come

Album Review | Shoelay Music | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 The second full-length album by the curiously named Devon duo India Electric Co. finds Cole Stacey and Joseph O’Keefe at their creative best, with eleven selections each of which are treated to highly inventive arrangements throughout. With so much music at our … Continue reading India Electric Co – The Gap

Album Review | Thirty Tigers | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Kendl Winter and Palmer T Lee, otherwise known as The Lowest Pair, return with their sixth album to date, delicately produced by Mike Mogis, who strives to take the duo’s sound to unchartered waters. The Lowest Pair’s familiar clawhammer banjo and guitar … Continue reading The Lowest Pair – The Perfect Plan

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Following My Girl the River’s debut This Ain’t No Fairytale, their new album Cardinal in the Snow opens with an assured performance on “Something in the Water”, a deliciously melodic opener that provides nothing short of a showcase for Kris Wilkinson Hughes’ … Continue reading My Girl the River – Cardinal in the Snow

Album Review | Highway 20 Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 The fourteenth studio album in a career that spans just over forty years.  Good Souls Better Angels demonstrates that this Louisiana-born songstress shows no immediate signs of slowing down any time soon, nor for that matter does it look like Williams … Continue reading Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels