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The Moon Shells “Seaside Asylum” (Casa de Agua, 2019)

August 13, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

There’s just something special about the combination of fiddle and banjo. When they’re working at the height of their combined powers, they’re able to summon up memories that aren’t even our own. They speak from all […]

Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, 1st-4th August 2019

August 13, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Now in its 55th year, an impressive achievement in itself, Cambridge Folk Festival continues to go from strength to strength and this year’s event was one of the best. At the top of the bill there […]

Frank Turner “No Man’s Land” (Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, 2019)

August 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

The title of Frank Turner’s eighth album is a bit of a pun as the thirteen songs it consists of all are stories of women. No men. Get it? On ‘No Man’s Land‘ Frank Turner sets […]

Ellis Paul “The Storyteller’s Suitcase” (Rosella Records, 2019)

August 12, 2019 Peter Churchill 0

“I felt compelled to write about it. Three people dead – over what? A fucking statue.” Ellis Paul outlines in words that brook little ambiguity the drive behind his song ‘The Battle of Charlottesville’. The song […]

Curtis Eller “A Poison Melody” (Independent, 2019)

August 8, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 1

Curtis Eller is a dynamic bandleader and banjo player who channels a great sense of vaudevillian Victorians to his idiosyncratic musical vision. Opening with ‘Radiation Poison‘, Eller sets the tone by throwing the kitchen sink at […]