Album Reviews
Charlie Sutton “Trout Takes”
Downhome yarns have a bewitching charm. A whole album around the subject of fishing may sound as appealing as a corkscrew to the eye to some folks but don’t run away so fast as Charlie Sutton […]
Articles by Keith Hargreaves
Features
Small Venue Heroes – Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet has been a regular feature of the live scene in the UK for over 30 years and although I have seen him several times, each of those time is joyous celebration of the uplifting […]
Album Reviews
Elkyn “Holy Spirit Social Club”
Wistful, sometimes dreamy, Sparkly folk from Leeds. Joey Donnelly is Elkyn and he is channelling many things with this sometime delicate, sometime urgent album the first of which on the opener ‘Change’ is Neil Halstead and […]
Album Reviews
Jerry Leger “Nothing Pressing”
Toronto artist serves up his lockdown songs – a treat for the ears. And so it is that this soulful and in some cases urgent record seeps into the listeners consciousness. Alternating between stark solo affairs, […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the shed – Week 51
Believe it or not Easter Hols are coming Thank f**k for that. Covid numbers are at an all time high, spend more lessons covering for absent colleagues or uploading work for isolating students than I do […]