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King Ropes “Go Back Where They Came From” (Big and Just Little, 2020)

April 30, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

Opinion can be really quite polarised when it comes to covers. For every great new interpretation of an old song there can be others that are dismissed under the “if you can’t improve it then why […]

Philip Rambow “Canadiana” (Fretsore Records, 2020)

April 30, 2020 Linda Jameson 0

‘Canadiana’ is the follow up to 2015’s ‘Whatever Happened To Phil Rambow?’ and his Philip Rambow’s debut for Fretsore Records, the label behind releases by My Darling Clementine and Lily Garland. Rambow is originally from Montreal […]

James Hyland “Western” (Independent, 2020)

April 30, 2020 Emily Dongray 0

James Hyland is from Texas. Like many from Texas, he is not just from Texas; he IS Texas. Hyland started as a member of the South Austin Jug Band, a casual party bluegrass group with no […]

Ultan Conlon “There’s a Waltz” (DarkSideOut Records, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

Conlon has employed an impressive roster of session musicians to create, ‘There’s a Waltz’ which was recorded at The Heritage Studios in Los Angeles; a long way from his native Galway. Predominant on most of the […]

Pinball “Pinball” (Independent, 2020)

April 29, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Something we don’t get a lot of these days is an album of instrumentals; that’s what we have here with the debut album from Pinball, entitled ‘Pinball’! The band consists of Australians Melissa Cox on violin […]