Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 4/5 The Hoth Brothers are a dream band, two distinctive vocalists and players, Bard Erdington V and Boris McCutcheon, Sarah Ferrells Upright Bass and contrasting vocals and Greg Williams, striking percussion. Formed from conversations while pruning trees in the Santa Fe apple orchards … Continue reading Hoth Brothers – Workin’ and Dreamin’

Live Review | CAST Theatre, Doncaster | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Northern Sky Stock Photo To open the first date of his final tour of 2019, Daoiri Farrell arrived in Doncaster on an extremely wet November afternoon, the rain so hostile, that it kept some ticket holders away.  Daoiri managed to get from Dublin … Continue reading Daoiri Farrell

Live Review | The Crescent, York | Review by Allan Wilkinson. There was something of a joyful atmosphere at the popular York venue tonight as the audience made their way into the main concert hall at the Crescent.  It was standing room only as the sold out show began, with the young Nottingham-born singer songwriter … Continue reading Skerryvore/Rachel Croft

Album Review | Reveal Records | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Side man, mover and shaker, Boo Hewerdine is a hard person to pin down. As a songwriter, writing for himself and Eddi Reader, he has penned some of the finest ballads you have ever heard. He was a member … Continue reading Boo Hewerdine – Before

Live Review | CAST Theatre, Doncaster | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Photos by Phil Carter The foyer at the CAST Theatre was packed tonight with some familiar faces, many unfamiliar and all looking forward to the return of Show of Hands to the town.  Doncaster turned out for the third show of the band’s … Continue reading Show of Hands

Album Review | Rafting Dog Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 Blues-based at its core, Living in Clover feels like a concept album of sorts, with themed songs, a sense of reflection whilst at the same time a notion of forward thinking, with occasional sound effects adding to the atmosphere.  Oysterband’s Alan … Continue reading Alan Prosser and Al Clarke – Living in Clover

Album Review |Noe Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 If we consider the twelve years of music making and nine albums along the way, Postcards and Pocketbooks: The Best of Bella Hardy could hardly fail to impress through its sheer expansiveness in terms of songwriting and musical collaboration.  Twenty-seven songs collected from … Continue reading Bella Hardy – Postcards and Pocketbooks

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Terry Hiscock's contemporaries back in the late 1960s and early 1970s would have been the likes of Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and Steeleye Span, foremost bands of the early days of British folk rock, though his band Hunter Muskett, named for an eccentric … Continue reading Terry Hiscock – Falling More Slowly

Album Review | Atlas Maior Music | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 Based in Austin, Texas, Atlas Maior, named for the masterpiece of Dutch cartography, explore a wealth of musical influences, notably Arab, Turkish, Indian and Latin American, together with home grown jazz courtesy of the alto sax of Joshua Thomson.  The eleven … Continue reading Atlas Maior – Riptide

Album Review | Yellow Room Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 The dozen songs on When They Fall, the eighth album by the Michigan-based husband and wife team Annie and Rod Capps, have a bright and breezy feel, yet nothing here is what you might call lightweight. Performing together since the early … Continue reading Annie and Rod Capps – When They Fall