Peter Tomkins

Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly “The Unlawful Assembly”

October 13, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Superb versions of spirituals and work songs performed with a voice mined from the bedrock. Walter Parks has a superb grizzled, soulful voice; full of rumbling authority, shot through with and sagacity. The perfect voice to […]

Katy Rose Bennett “Alone On a Hill”

September 21, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Scope and emotional depth from a one-woman choir. Where do you find a community choir to lead when you are holed up by yourself in a house on a hill during a lockdown? Well, you have […]

Essentials: The top 10 Jon Langford related albums

September 9, 2021 Peter Tomkins 4

Jon Langford has lived in Chicago for the last thirty or so years, but is originally from Newport in South Wales. When I interviewed Jon over the phone – that’s a bit like Zoom but without […]

The Burner Band “Signs and Wonders”

August 6, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Incipient, snarling rock and roll melding bluegrass and punk as if this were Memphis in 1954. Did rock and roll originate in Sun Records Recording Studio, Memphis in 1954? Some might argue that others were treading […]

Tobacco City “Tobacco City, USA”

August 5, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Laidback, cool, West Coast country from a new Gram and Emmylou. It’s strange how a pedal steel can evoke thoughts of either a deep south dive bar full of rednecks or a trippy night at San […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
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RE: My First Record Player
I had a Rotel amp and turntable too until the buttons s...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@peterthompson When Ryan Adams string breaks during Bar...
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World Party - Private Revolution
Oh Karl - you left us much too soon. word on the street...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero (vinyl) XTC - English...
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David Allan Coe (9/6/1939 - 4/29/2026)
David Allan Coe was certainly a controversial figure, b...
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RE: Versions!
You know those songs that you know and that song become...
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Cover art for Tom Piazza book "Living In The Present With John Prine"

Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”

May 8, 2026 0

During the opening lines of the foreword to Tom Piazza’s latest book, Living In The Present With John Prine, the widow of one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Fiona Prine, describes how her late […]

Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Clock, 21st September 1986

May 8, 2026 1

The Old Grey Whistle Test (which in its final years was abbreviated to the Whistle Test) was commissioned by David Attenborough and ran from 1971 to 1988. Broadcast annually on BBC Two between 1984 and 1986, […]

Artwork for Trippers & Askers album Tried To Do's

Trippers & Askers “Tried To Do’s”

May 8, 2026 0

Invest time and listen carefully, and you may find reward with this deep, introspective record. Trippers & Askers is the recording and songwriting project of Jay Hammond, musician, sound artist, educator and researcher. He is currently […]

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