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Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore “Working-Class Heroes: A History Of Struggle and Song” (Free Dirt Records, 2019)

June 20, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

You know times must be tough when an album of pre World War 2 working class American songs sounds topical. ‘Working- Class Heroes’ finds folk singers Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore revisiting 20 songs mainly culled […]

Paul Cauthen + Fenella + Julen Santamaria, Broadcast, Glasgow, 17th June 2019

June 19, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Last time Texan Paul Cauthen was around these parts he was riding solo but this first date of a short UK tour found him with a posse of armed and dangerous Dallas cowboys well able to […]

Topic Records 80th Birthday Party, The Barbican, London, 7th June 2019

June 19, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

At 80 years of age Topic Records is the world’s oldest Independent Record label – and if it hasn’t been called Topic for the whole of that time there is at least a good continuity all […]

Forty Elephant Gang “Next Time Round” (Independent, 2019)

June 19, 2019 Russell Murphy 0

Naming your popular beat combo after a vicious gang of 19th-century thieves and robbers from South London – and female at that – may seem an interesting choice for an Alt-folk (their description) band from East […]

Rich Layton & Tough Town “Salvation Road” (Never Lucky Records, 2019)

June 19, 2019 Mark Johnson 0

On the original road to salvation, St. Paul suggests that the wages of sin are death. Rich Layton has avoided that outcome in a lifetime in the rock’n’roll trenches, but has taken a few knocks along […]