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 […]
Feature Stories
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 […]
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 […]
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BLUES EN LOIRE BLUES FESTIVAL – La Charite sur Loire, France. August 14 – 21, 2016 – Festival review/blues music By Iain Patience
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 […]
CD Review – ZIGGY MARLEY By MICHAEL SMITH
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 […]
Are you a Hussy or a Hick? By Rosemary Beard
When you listen to the Hussy Hicks you can be sure what you are listening to is good and will suit your mood. Their name, as well as their music, is reflective of the diversity in the […]
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BELA BANJO & BELLA SINGING By Tony Hillier
The pyrotechnics produced by the Punch Brothers quintet on the opening night of the 2016 Adelaide Guitar Festival at the city’s Town Hall made them an awfully tough act to follow, but Bela Fleck and […]
Kim Cheshire New Video!
Kim Cheshire: I have been absent from the world of recorded music since my 2010 album “Dead Man’s Shoes” but felt compelled to record an anti war song I wrote with my friend and fellow songwriter […]
PUNCHY START TO GUITAR FEST By TONY HILLIER
For the second time in four years, the Punch Brothers delivered a knockout performance to kick-start the Adelaide Guitar Festival – one that had a packed house enthralled from the opening round to the closing […]
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Cd Review – GAYE ADEGBALOLA & THE WILD RUTZ By Iain Patience
GAYE ADEGBALOLA & THE WILD RUTZ Is It Still Good To Ya? Hot Toddy Music/Gaye Adegbalola.com Acoustic blues Blues music can often be labelled as music with ‘attitude’; indeed attitude is generally at the very […]