The Country Music Association (CMA) recently announced details of the 2017 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The late Jerry Reed, an...
Archive - April 2017
I was brought up on a diet of many musical genres. My two older brothers were soul boys, and so I used to lay in bed at night while they...
In my Top Five best blues albums of the year thus far. Selwyn Birchwood’s “difficult second album” doesn’t sound like it caused him many...
The Queen has a staff member at Buckingham Palace to break in her new £1,000 a pair shoes by wearing socks and then walking about on the carpets in the Palace...
The biggest music star in Israel with 25 x # 1s to his name, and collaborations with the likes of Jackson Browne, Wyclef Jean, Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin...
Janis Ian. Folk legend. Singer. Songwriter. A star for five decades. A songwriter’s songwriter. It takes a brave soul to set...
This is perhaps an album for those who may have uttered those immortal words at some stage; “Man, I really cannot get in to jazz.”...
“A striking new album from one of our very best.” So reads the PR blurb sent with this advance copy. Well, it would say that, wouldn’t it...
He and his music have been called “absolutely terrific” by the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show and it has also been said by the music press...
Deluxe three disc CD set, ‘Van Morrison – The Authorized Bang Collection’ is the first official comprehensive anthology ever...
A very welcome CD box set retrospective of this legendary Australian rock outfit’s more recent releases of their 42 year career. A...
A much under-rated rock singer who deserves to take a turn in the spotlight once again. Graham Bonnet’s “Anthology” is the first...
Seminal Blackpool post-punk band’s entire early discography in one box set. A cracking 99 tracks on five discs. The Membranes came...
A bumper five disc, 89 track box set from this unique band from Watford – Rickmansworth to be precise – formed back in 1980, offering...
One of the very best rock and blues bands this country has ever produced. Fact. This sparkling gem of a release confirms that...
He’s a soul man at heart. The voice, the guitar playing, the song writing. Robert Cray may well have Grammy awards and many accolades as...
Seasick Steve photo – Copyright: Simon Redley Madness, Seasick Steve, Skunk Anansie, The Fall, The Alarm, Vintage Trouble, current Radio 1...
Hot on the heels of her 2016 debut album ‘A Twist of Blue’, London jazz artist Fiona Ross’ has released a new double-album ‘Just Me (and...
The release of UK singer-songwriter Lisbee Stainton’s new album “Then Up” on 21st April will be followed up by a UK tour in May to...
“One of the few artists who can do no wrong whatsoever.” So says BBC Radio 2. Who? Ireland’s internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy...
Following two sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House, and the nationwide tour that followed in 2016, Australia’s celebrated live concert event...
Manchester’s legendary Happy Mondays have announced a twenty-five date tour of the UK and Ireland for November and December 2017. The...
Due to phenomenal demand, legendary singer Lulu and one of the best soul and R&B voices the UK has ever produced, has confirmed that she will embark...
You could say that US saxophone man Jared Sims plays with spirt. Or perhaps, more accurately; spirits! Check out the third cut on his...
UK blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Danny Bryant had a dream. One which he fulfils with his brand new double live album “BIG”...
This man could do no wrong for me. At all. Ever. The late and very great blues man, Master of the Telecaster, the Iceman; Albert Collins...
Birmingham’s O2 Academy is the ninth stop on Stormzy’s sold out 17 date U.K. and Ireland tour, following the release of his smash hit debut album “Gang...
Since his 18-year residency as guitarist and music director of US TV’s “The Tonight Show” band ended in 2010...
Rohey: A Million Things…This album is getting a lot of love at soul and jazz radio right now. Gilles Peterson and Jamie...
Fresh off the success of hit single “All Time Low”, the remix of which features British grime sensation Stormzy, New-York-born rapper Jon Bellion has embarked...
Grammy-nominated Chicago blues icon Lonnie Brooks, whose music Rolling Stone called, “witty, soulful and ferociously energetic…simply astonishing...
(l-r) Kristian Bush, Drake White, Maren Morris, Bennett Lewis (Morris’ guitarist), Liz Rose and Mac McAnally perform during the sold-out CMA Songwriters...
Your first ever gig opening for Thin Lizzy is a damn good start for any band, eh? That’s how Witchfynde started out, eventually a hot hard rock act at the same...










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