Album Review | THL Records | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Seamus Egan is a respected influential traditional Irish musician, founder member of Solas, and established film music composer. Early Bright perfectly brings those two strands together, showcasing Irish music while drawing in cinematic Americana, Folk and much more besides. With a cover … Continue reading Seamus Egan – Early Bright

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 There's something immediately homely, rather than home-made, about Bread and Jam, the debut album by La Llamas, an Aberdeenshire-based duo made up of Davy Cattanach and Paddy Buchanan. The fact that this album is dedicated to Davy's mum, who he shares a … Continue reading La Llamas – Bread and Jam

Album Review | Field Notes Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 This is a live album, but not in the sense of a performance in front of an audience, but in the sense of several living, breathing 'plein air' performances in the South Somerset area around the A303 trunk road. There's birds … Continue reading Three Cane Whale – 303

Live Review | CAST Theatre, Doncaster | Review by Allan Wilkinson Northern Sky talks to Seth Lakeman about A Pilgrim's Tale: For the launch of his new album, A Pilgrim’s Tale, Seth Lakeman has chosen ten venues in locations very much associated with the Mayflower, starting in Doncaster, just twelve miles north of Scrooby, the … Continue reading Seth Lakeman

Album Review | Free Dirt Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 With members from Argentina, Mexico and the United States, the Buenos Aires-based string band Che Apalache provide enough diversity both in terms of their ethnicity and their musical style with an album chock full of surprises, from authentic Latin grooves and … Continue reading Che Apalache – Rearrange My Heart

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Gren Bartley always provides a certain place for the listener to go, a place of meditation and repose, where the mixed up, muddled up, shook up world can do one.  He does this by paying attention to the sonic possibilities of his … Continue reading Gren Bartley – Quiet II

Album Review | Pipe Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 There’s little doubt that Phil Ochs left the world too early, when he still had plenty to say.  When Bob Dylan stood down as the people’s protest singer in the mid-1960s, Phil Ochs was still only too willing to take up the … Continue reading Martyn Joseph – Days of Decision

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 Two things initially drew me into this album of songs and poems from both England and Ireland; Julie Abbé’s richly honeyed voice and the smouldering cello played just as it should be played, courtesy of Dominie Hooper, but it doesn’t stop there.  … Continue reading Julie Abbé – Numberless Dreams

Album Review | BMG | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 It seems only fair that Devon’s Seth Lakeman should tell the story of the Mayflower’s epic journey to the New World on the 400th anniversary of its historic voyage, not only because Plymouth’s cobbled streets are but a stone’s throw away from Seth’s … Continue reading Seth Lakeman – A Pilgrim’s Tale