Twenty years ago Madeleine Peyroux literally exploded onto the music scene with her debut album, “Dreamland” attracting enormous world-wide acclaim and critical appraisal. Catapulted from virtual obscurity to the fashionable music limelight, Peyroux was initially […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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