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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A tough one for me, or any critic/reviewer/journalist who is reviewing a release from an artist they know personally, they...
If you have ever had to wait for your telephone line to be fixed in the UK, you will see the irony in this band’s name...
FIRST ON-LINE REVIEW When legendary singer and songwriter Gary Brooker was sat in the control room of the...
This time last weekend, I was writing a review of a new Dizzy Gillespie live album, a “lost” recording from...
A massively popular singer on the Northern Soul scene, still today 13 years after his death. One of the most popular soul/R&B...
This revered soul artist is still sadly missed, some seven or so years after her death at the age of 54-years old. A lovely two...
Double-CD set by soul/pop and reggae icon, Johnny Nash covering close 15 years of recordings. This first-of-its-kind collection...
This one excited me. The first ever box set dedicated to UK new wave punk band Radio Stars. I was a fan back in the day. On 17th...
Newly re-mastered edition of the classic and highly collectable album by Little Free Rock, the UK hard rock trio from the late...
Newly re-mastered edition of “Too Many Crooks”, the 1976 album by Unicorn. Featuring a line-up of Ken Baker (guitar, keyboards...
Newly re-mastered edition of “One More Tomorrow”, the 1977 album by Unicorn. Featuring a line-up of Ken Baker (guitar...
Former prog’ rock synth’ player Tim Blake is seen as a pioneer and after he quit the band in 1975, he teamed up with...
Who remembers Gong? Prog rock pioneers from the 1970s. Formed in 1967 in Paris by Aussie Daevid Allen and Brit’ singer Gilli Smyth, who...
He’s back. Dave Hanson, Leeds-based guitar master and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead axe man for alt. folksters The Dunwells. Dave...
This record blew my socks off. Funky, groove-soaked, jazz-meets-soul-meets-funk-meets…. well; sheer talent. Channelling the...
I loved her last album and gave it a glowing review. That record and two of her songs from it, made it into my end of year “Best Of” in my...
Coco Montoya, a true blues-rock giant. Formerly a member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers for a decade, alongside his pal Walter Trout...
This one took me by surprise. Didn’t know the band at all; nor just what they are capable of. An outrageously stonking ‘blues and...
“Know My Name”. I didn’t. But I do now. Marty is a rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter of considerable talents from Atlanta...
Bumper six-disc box set, a total of 60 tracks, including three “bonus” mono singles, available on CD for the first time. Who is Rex...
What is Yorkshire famous for? Tea? Beer? Cricket? Beautiful countryside? Yummy cholestrol-bashing Sunday lunch pudding? The largest...
What can one say about jazz icon Dizzy Gillespie that has not already been said? A pioneer, an innovator, a giant as a trumpeter, composer and...
Picture the scene. Me, Little Richard and the two promoters of a historic arena tour that starred three rock and roll legends; Little...
Although he died forty years ago, at the age of 48, Matt McGinn left behind a legacy of more than 500 songs that he had written. Labelled...
This is an unusual one. A live double album taken from an astounding SIX HOUR concert by this sizzling jazz (and more), trio, recorded in...
Big fan of this cool cat. A sucker for Hammond stuff, and have seen and shot pix of a fair few of the greats over the years; Jimmy Smith, Jimmy...
Really fun album with a fabulous singer. British seven-piece band Steamchicken blend folk, jazz, gypsy-swing, reggae, blues, soul...
This one caught me by surprise. A very pleasant surprise. Never heard of the two musicians before. When I noted the instrumentation...
One of the best reggae bands to come from the UK, with a wondrous come-back album, 34 years since their debut album was released...
Debut release from quirky and unique Swedish singer songwriter Johanna Lillvik, offering five self-penned five songs that almost defy...