This week saw the release of Sandy Denny – The Notes & The Music – A Collection of Demos and Rarities, a four-CD box set celebrating some of the lesser known works of one of the UK’s best-loved folk singers.…
Author: Ian Parker
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EP | Simone Felice – New York Times EP
After years of producing outstanding records with the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King, Simone Felice’s debut solo album fell a little short. When it hit its highs, it was beautiful (look no further than opener Hey Bobby…
Album | Lau – Race The Loser
Folk too often is, by its very nature, a fairly conservative musical genre. There are enough mavericks to mix it up, of course, but when a band ambles on stage with a guitar, a fiddle and an accordian, you generally…
Interview | Introducing…The Fishermen Three
You may well have seen Simon Beims play somewhere, even if you don’t realise it. Whether he’s been touring with the Jeffrey Lewis Band, Herman Dune, I Was a King, or The Wave Pictures, supporting the likes of the Cribs…
Album | Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog – Draw Dros y Mynydd
Depending on where you stand, lyrics are either mere words to carry a tune or a key element – a story or sentiment necessary to make a listener connect with a song. I’ve known passionate music fans as well as…
EP | Feldspar – The Flat And Paper Sky Vol. 1
Soaring tunes, powerful vocals, lush instrumentation. If that sounds good to you, then so will Feldspar’s debut EP. And it certainly should, because this is a truly exciting debut from a band who should go far. The London five-piece announce…
Album | Denver – Denver
The idea, floated in their press release, that Denver come across as “a modern-day Highwaymen” might be stretching it a little bit. Groupings that bring together the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennnings belong in…
Album | Mark Eitzel – Don’t Be A Stranger
It is important throughout your life to proclaim your joy. So Mark Eitzel told us on his 2001 EP. Eleven years on, as he releases his latest album Don’t Be A Stranger, the 53-year-old has more reason than ever to…
Album | Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
The story of Alynda Lee Segarra’s drift into the music business is one of those that seems a little too good to be true. The notion that, by the age of 17, she had already escaped The Bronx to drift…
EP | Joe Banfi – Iron
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Communion are releasing a new EP by a singer-songwriter whose distinctive voice is, all by itself, enough to lift him above the crowd. And so Joe Banfi follows in the footsteps of…