October 2019 – Page 21

Richard Thompson – 70th Birthday Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London, 30th September 2019

October 14, 2019 Claire Stones 1

When you’ve had a career such as Richard Thompson’s, supreme songwriter and guitar virtuoso, with many fellow musicians as fans, your 70th Birthday bash, of course, has to be held at the Royal Albert Hall. On […]

Video: May Erlewine “Whole Again”

October 14, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1

Now this is a powerful song. Written in support of the Me Too movement, and in particular Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, it’s timely and important. It’s out as a single and will also be on her […]

Video: The Avett Brothers “Tell The Truth”

October 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 2

We leave you this week dear reader in a similar place to the way we left you last week, with The Avett Brothers (whose name, thanks to this clip, I now realise I have been mispronouncing […]

Del Barber “Easy Keeper” (Acronym, 2019)

October 11, 2019 Mike Elliott 1

Too often these days, when an artist tries on the sound of the past he may get the music right – using all the proper amps, vintage guitars, analog equipment and such – and still not […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Quiet Loner “The Captain’s Diseased”

October 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s funny to think that when Quiet Loner recorded this song back in 2013 that we’d have had another two captains by the end of the decade but both essentially steering the same course, and each […]