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Essentials: The top 10 Indigo Girls albums

June 10, 2021 Diccon Johnston 0

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first performed together in high school, but they only named themselves the Indigo Girls in 1985 and released their first album ‘Strange Fire’ in 1987. It was the release of their […]

Essentials: The top 10 Sturgill Simpson songs

June 3, 2021 Richard Phillips 0

Sturgill Simpson comes from a family that has a strong musical heritage, his grandfathers and uncles all playing guitar. His bluegrass heritage was originally evidenced in 2004 with his band, Sunday Valley until he put his […]

Essentials: The top 10 The Waterboys songs

May 27, 2021 Viv Fish 10

The Waterboys have been a stalwart on the music scene for the best part of forty years. From first seeing them live in 1985, at Leeds Polytechnic (as it was then), to most recently in 2018, […]

Essentials: The top 10 Brandi Carlile songs

May 20, 2021 Russell Murphy 2

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, multi-platinum album sales, multiple Grammy winner as both performer and producer, supergroup founding member, humanitarian activist, a number one book on the New York Times Bestseller list, even has a restaurant named after […]

Essentials: The top 10 Rosanne Cash songs

May 13, 2021 Andrew Frolish 4

Over a music career lasting more than forty years, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, winning Grammy Awards and delivering a string of hits in the U.S. Country Charts. Stylistically, Cash has drawn […]