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Ruen Brothers “All My Shades Of Blue” (Ramseur, 2018)

July 23, 2018 Tim Merricks 0

Ruen Brothers aka Henry and Rupert Stansall are Scunthorpe’s very own success story. Having been catapulted from boozy ‘Sunny Scunny’ dives to Rick Rubin’s Malibu Shangri La studios they could be forgiven for being a little […]

Steve Tilston “Distant Days” (Riverboat Records, 2018)

July 20, 2018 Kevin Bourke 0

It’s not uncommon these days for more, ahem, ‘mature’, artists to cherry-pick and rework their own back catalogue in a bare-bones style. There can be any number of reasons for them doing so, including, but certainly […]

John Renbourn “Live in Kyoto 1978” (Drag City, 2018)

July 20, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

It hardly needs repeating that John Renbourn was a phenomenally talented guitarist who turned his hand to a variety of music – folk, jazz, blues, the start of the ‘Early Music’ movement. And he excelled in […]

Luna Waves “Seafoam Dream (Part 1)” (Independent, 2018)

July 20, 2018 David Stevenson 0

Luna Waves is the moniker adopted by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire, Rob Muir and the first part of his two album release ‘Seafoam Dream’ is due for release at the end of this month, with the […]

Lucero “Among the Ghosts” (Thirty Tigers, 2018)

July 19, 2018 Jim Finnie 0

OK, let’s break the rules and get straight to the point – ‘Among the Ghosts‘ is a very good album. No need to read through, or (heaven forbid) even skim over a few hundred words describing […]