BLUES AT SEA, STOCKHOLM by Iain Patience
October 22-23, 2016 Chicago bluesman Lil Ed Williams might be packing them in for his usual, bouncing, boisterous sets in the Carribean right now, as part of the Legendary Blues Cruise, but only a few […]
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THE 2016 SYDNEY BLUES AND ROOTS FESTIVAL by Nick Charles
As a long time Melbournian but having grown up in Sydney, it’s been eons since I last visited Windsor (I had some school camps there in the 60s!!). It’s somewhat changed in the intervening decades! […]
LIVE REVIEW – Country Classics featuring Robert Ellis & friends + special guests Sean McMahon and The MoonMen By Nick Argyriou
Friday 28 October, Spotted Mallard Sean McMahon reunites with former Downhills Home cohort Mick Hubbard, tight Josh Duiker drums and woozy pedal steel to get old lovers waltzing along on the dance floor from the […]
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Archie Roach, Album Launch – Let Love Rule – Melbourne Recital Centre, October 29 by Chris Lambie
A friend recently declared she was ‘over big auditorium shows’. She’d stick to low-key, intimate and informal gigs from now on. The following night, I’m in the stylish surrounds of the Melbourne Recital Centre with […]
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 […]
OUT ON THE WEEKEND – SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER, SEAWORKS, WILLIAMSTOWN – BY Nick Argyriou
“You cast a shadow on my heart babe, every time you move a certain way/Put pressure on the blood veins/Resuscitate the heavy weight but alleviate the pain/Nothing ever came so easy/Nothing ever came so hard/Am […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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Joe Bonamassa Live at The Palais Theatre – by Mark Moray
The Palais Theatre in Melbourne has hosted many events from The Rolling Stones in the sixties to Buddy Guy in 2012, and like this old lady which is getting a wonderful makeover, Joe Bonamassa has […]