Smooth sounds and a great voice for a summer’s day – if we ever get one! The press release for the second album by husband and wife duo KP and Johnny Hawthorn, The HawtThorns’ describes their work […]
A sharply affectionate take on the counter culture and an accurately barbed dig at the establishment. Gilbert Shelton, a key figure in the underground comics scene, created three characters, Fat Freddy Freekowtski, Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek, and […]
Naive and bland or optimistic and soothing? Although as Kevin Moore Keb’Mo’ released an album in 1980, it was actually in 1994 that he produced his first self-titled disc. It was very much in an acoustic […]
Leith meets Tucson in a propitious if sometimes lyrically obscure combination. Dean Owens is no stranger to these pages and no stranger to being highly praised within them. His live shows have been praised as, ‘sunshine […]
Nautical folk – the great sound of storytelling, the sea and unadorned often unaccompanied voices. ‘The Longest Johns’ have been in existence since mid-2012 hailing from Bristol and currently consisting of Andy Yates, Dave Robinson, Jonathan “JD” […]
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