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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Loire is France’s last true, wild, untamed river, a meandering, sprawling affair that mirrors its US counterpart the Mississippi by frequently flooding, bursting its banks, claiming lives and capturing the imaginations of artists, musicians […]
ZIGGY MARLEY ZIGGY MARLEY Tuff Gong Worldwide/Source Music Reggae and beyond Sixteen albums into a career that began when he was ten years old accompanying his legendary father in the studio, Ziggy Marley knows exactly […]
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