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Gold Light “Zephyr” (Bailey Park, 2019)

November 7, 2019 Viv Fish 0

Joe Chang, aka Gold Light, has been releasing music since 2013 from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. ‘Zephyr‘, his fourth album, was all written, performed and mixed by Chang himself and recorded over just […]

The Swamptruck Good Time Band “Swamptruck Good Time Band” (Independent, 2019)

November 7, 2019 Dave Clarke 0

This is the debut album from an established group of five musicians, based in Cambridge UK, well known at local festivals, and at The Cambridge Festival itself. They are much revered locally. ‘Good Time Band,’ the […]

Karen & The Sorrows “Guaranteed Broken Heart” (Ocean Born Mary Music, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

One of the music industry’s most time-honoured clichés is that an artist’s third album represents a critical creative crossroads – even way back in the 1980s, Essex folk singer Billy Bragg wryly subtitled his immortal […]

Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings “Rose In June” (Hudson Records, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Tim Martin 0

Jon Boden is best known as the leader of English folk band Bellowhead. This new album, his fourth solo work, is more diverse in sound and feel than his former group, despite relying at least partly on […]

Sarah Lee Langford “Two Hearted Rounder” (Cornelius Chapel Records, 2019)

November 6, 2019 Gordon Sharpe 0

Hopefully one of the benefits of a review is that it can tell you something you don’t know – usually about the artist, the subject matter or the musicians involved. In this case I am going […]

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