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Artwork for The Georgia Sea Island Singers album - Friends of Old-Time Music

Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young “The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert”

July 8, 2024 Viv Fish 0

How a live recording of a concert can preserve one powerful moment indelibly in time. “We are on the road to world peace, freedom, and integration”, declares ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1965, as he introduces this […]

Linda Thompson “Proxy Music”

July 5, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

A celebration of one artist’s songs by family and friends who just happen to be music icons. You can easily make the case that Linda Thompson is one of the greatest British vocalists of the last […]

artwork for Ned Roberts album "Heavy Summer"

Ned Roberts “Heavy Summer”

July 5, 2024 Graeme Tait 2

An album that sees Roberts continue to cement his place as one of this country’s finest singer/songwriters of his generation. London based Ned Roberts has gradually garnered a healthy reputation among this country’s new crop of […]

Mercury Rev “Born Horses”

July 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Once more The Rev evolve. I am here, this time, to persuade you – and let’s start by acknowledging that rumour is correct, this new album from Mercury Rev is quite unlike their previous releases. Not […]

Bluegrass Briefs – Tony Trischka, Lonesome River Band, Tray Wellington, Barnyard Tea, Del McCoury Band

July 3, 2024 Tim Martin 0

With some of our recent columns being mostly focused on Bluegrass from the outreaches of the genre, we now have some records that are straight from the heart of what most people know and love about […]