RICHARD RAY FARRELL – I Sing The Blues Eclectic – By Iain Patience
RICHARD RAY FARRELL I Sing The Blues Eclectic Blue Beet I Sing The Blues Eclectic first saw the light of day in 2011 but is once more now available this year. Farrell is a US […]
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Jack White – Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 by Martin Jones
XL Rock/folk When I saw Jack White step up from a dilapidated sidewalk table and blow the stage of Melbourne’s Evelyn Hotel apart to about a dozen witnesses fifteen years ago, I knew I’d just […]
CD Review – THE STRAY BIRDS – MAGIC FIRE by Michael Smith
Yep Roc/Redeye Worldwide/The Planet Company Folk/Country/Americana Now a four-piece with addition of drummer/percussionist Shane Leonard, for the first time former Lancaster County, Penns now Nashvillians The Stray Birds – Maya de Vistry (voice, fiddle, banjo, […]
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CD Review – GLEN PHILLIPS – SWALLOWED BY THE NEW by Brett Leigh Dicks
UMAMI MUSIC American singer-songwriter Glen Phillips has never shied away from the heart of the matter – be it in life or song. So when he recorded his first new album of solo material in […]
CD REVIEW – OTIS REDDING – LIVE AT THE WHISKY A GO GO by Iain Patience
Stax Records Soul I’m not a great fan of many ‘F’ words save for the ubiquitous, essential four-letter variant, but this sixty-four track, six-disc release is simply stunning, fantastic, fabulous fun, fun, fun. Loaded with […]
Working Class Bass Player: My (very small!) part in the rise and rise of Jimmy Barnes By Michael Smith
As Jimmy points out in his new autobiography, Working Class Boy, the accompanying photo is the only known image of the short-lived cover band he was in, aged 16, before getting the call to join […]
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FIONA BOYES – PROFESSIN’ THE BLUES – by Iain Patience
Fiona Boyes Professin’ The Blues Blues Reference Recordings Sixteen tracks in a new release from Bay area label Reference, show-casing the evidently earthy, considerable talents of Ozzie picker Boyes, Professin’ The Blues is an outstanding […]
Grant Lee Phillips – by Martin Jones
Grant Lee Phillips had only just moved to Nashville when I met him at Americana Festival three years ago. He seemed to have been immediately accepted by the leftfield musical story-tellers at the heart of […]
Rainforest World Music Festival review 2016 By Chris Lambie
Sarawak Cultural Village, Malaysian Borneo Many elements make the Rainforest World Music Festival unique. The ‘living museum’ setting, a 35-minute drive from the state’s capital Kuching, is a sprawling green and serene world of its […]
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TOOTS THIELEMANS OBIT
April 29, 1922 – August 22, 2016 Toots Thielemans was one of those remarkably rare birds – a multi-insturmentalist of note, he survived numerous musical changes and challenges switching from his initial love of […]