Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 59
Half term been and gone. So it came and went in a flash and left a nasty sting in the tail, but while it lasted half term was a thing of joy. Most of it spent […]
Articles by Keith Hargreaves
Album Reviews
Kate Rusby “30: Happy Returns”
Thirty year celebration involving… everyone! This album has a rightly celebratory feel as Rusby, a key mover and shaker in progressing folk from the confines of the beard stroking isolationists that had bedevilled the form for […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 58
Half term and festival time. I have dragged my sorry arse to the end of the week and cannot communicate how grateful I am for half term. This term has been full of all the usual […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 57
No words can suffice.. I received a call on Saturday telling that one of my students who had left the school not 5 years ago had been found dead. It was shocking thing to hear. The […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Wilco “Sky Blue Sky”
From the opening delicate notes of ‘Either Way‘ to the closing chords of ‘On and On and On’, “Sky Blue Sky” signalled Wilco’s intent to develop into an even more interesting and arresting band than the alt […]