Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins The 19th Street Band are an Irish band who have nailed their own blend of authentic sounding hi-energy Country Western Swing.  The four piece, playing a host of instruments between them, recorded in Silver Spring Maryland and Clonmel Tipperary Ireland manage to sound like a … Continue reading The 19th Street Band – Diamond in the Rough

Album Review | Big Bright Beautiful Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson First appearing on the thriving North East music scene around twenty years ago, Stan the Band, (formerly The Stanhope Street Creatures, for about five minutes), has maintained a knack of writing instantly memorable rockers, infused with a soulful and bluesy edge, not unlike … Continue reading Stan the Band – Love

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson Staples of the Vancouver Island music scene, Jonny Miller and Heather Read, otherwise Peach and Quiet, create a certain warmth with their songs, each one treated to inviting arrangements and gentle harmonies.  The duo’s debut album was created in trying times, yet their hopes for … Continue reading Peach and Quiet – Just Beyond the Shine

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson Fuelled by a renewed and reinvigorated interest in songwriting, this Huddersfield-based singer songwriter describes himself as a ‘recovering drummer’ and now takes centre stage to deliver his own self-penned songs, drawing from innumerable influences.  Brought up on a diet of pop records from the collections … Continue reading Boo Sutcliffe – Blink

Album Review | Hedge of Sound | Review by Allan Wilkinson At a time when it becomes increasingly difficult to categorise the various directions folk music has taken over the past few years, which is certainly no bad thing, it still comes as a pleasant surprise to hear an album that delivers on its promise … Continue reading TRADarrr – Strange News

Album Review | Blue Corn Music | Review by Liam Wilkinson One of the great things about modern country outfits is that you get to pick out the many influences that have gone into the making of their music.  Listening to No Matter Where It Goes From Here, the latest album by Texas-based foursome Wood … Continue reading Wood and Wire – No Matter Where It Goes From Here

Album Review | Free Dirt Records | Review by Liam Wilkinson Cahalen Morrison possesses a voice that would raise the eyebrows of Otis Redding and Curtis Mayfield were they still alive to enjoy Call the Captain.  On “Barcelona Lighthouse” and “Before That Final Bell” - two of the highlights from the latest album by Seattle-based … Continue reading Western Centuries – Call the Captain

Album Review | One Row Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson When the first few notes of the opening tunes “Market Rasen Feast” and “Louth Quickstep” rang out of the speakers, I thought I’d inadvertently put on something from the folk revival era, if not the original source singers and musicians from the turn of … Continue reading Mossy Christian – Come Nobles and Heroes

Album Review | Blonde on Blonde Direct | Review by Allan Wilkinson By the time we reach track five “I Want the Blues”, there’s a strong sense that we’ve begun to accept that this new album by Dave Thomas is pretty much entrenched in the urban blues of Chicago, albeit from the docklands of Newport … Continue reading Dave Thomas – One More Mile