Album Review | Hudson Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Salt House is a class act. With two fine albums behind them, the band’s debut Lay Your Dark Low (2013) followed by Undersong (2018) and a slight change of line-up, this is all the proof we need. Salt House now return with … Continue reading Salt House – Huam
Amberly Chalberg – Hi-Line
Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 With almost half of the twelve songs warning us of 'explicit language' there’s a tendency to conclude that Amberly Chalberg means business here; she’s a lil bit cheeky, a lil bit angry, a lil bit Country, but then she’s also a whole … Continue reading Amberly Chalberg – Hi-Line
Richard Thompson
Comment | Facebook Live Stream | by Allan Wilkinson When the world is in virtual lockdown, with a deadly virus on the rampage and everyone is doing their very best to contain it, strange things begin to happen all around us. Festivals, concerts and gigs are forced into a Plan B situation where a Plan … Continue reading Richard Thompson
Robert Severin – Postcard From Budapest
Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 4/5 Robert Severin is a British-Hungarian, Glasgow based singer songwriter. Postcard From Budapest, a collection of acoustic biographical and reflective songs, accompanied by his guitar and the wonderful Innotet string quartet, is his debut release. With a voice that reminds me of Boo … Continue reading Robert Severin – Postcard From Budapest
Sam Reider – Video EP
EP Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | Stars: 5/5 Sam Reider, composer, musician and band leader of a compact acoustic big band, is for me the 21st Century’s Folk Duke Ellington. Like Edward E he has a lightness of touch on the keyboard, he is an inventive composer flowing across musical … Continue reading Sam Reider – Video EP
Anna Lynch – Apples in the Fall
EP Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Impressive five-song EP from California-born, now Asheville, North Carolina-based singer songwriter Anna Lynch, whose Country/Bluegrass sensibilities are perfectly captured, especially in the opening song and title track “Apples in the Fall”. Nostalgic yet avoiding sentimentality, the song takes a glimpse at small … Continue reading Anna Lynch – Apples in the Fall
Aruba Red – Shadow Work
EP Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 Wearing a feathered owl mask upon her forehead and resembling a young Annie Lennox, the cover shot of Aruba Red’s second EP release Shadow Work suggests the notion of wisdom, as the Stuttgart-born singer songwriter and daughter of the late Jack Bruce … Continue reading Aruba Red – Shadow Work
Elis Macfadyen – Dreamers and Journeys
Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 From the opening song “Life’s a Journey”, Elis Macfadyen invites us to join him on an odyssey, an adventure through the highways and byways of the mind of a dreamer. There’s something very familiar in these songs and especially in the melodies; … Continue reading Elis Macfadyen – Dreamers and Journeys
The Pine Hearts – Back to Sustain
Album Review | Self Release | Review by Marc Higgins | 4/5 The Pine Hearts play well oiled Bluegrass, with acoustic guitar, mandolin, double bass and three voices locking together like cogs on a machine. Back to Sustain, the three piece’s forth studio album is recorded live in a local community hall, compounding that sense … Continue reading The Pine Hearts – Back to Sustain
Bronwynne Brent
Live Review | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | Review by Allan Wilkinson For almost forty years now I’ve been listening to Stuart Palmer’s distinctive voice, while watching those ten fingers traverse the strings on his vintage Martin. There’s always something instantly familiar with this combination, which provides a satisfying half-hour to get things off to … Continue reading Bronwynne Brent
