My desk is now heaving with new CD releases so let’s do something about that, shall we? I’m going to try to group several review features into company selections. Here’s a…
Vinyl news & reviews for September, 2021. There’s 23 albums in this basic video version. Featuring rock, jazz, singer-song-writers and more A mixture of vinyl reviews and vinyl news, even the…
Who needs a neat and tidy Top 5 or a Top 10 CD review list when you can pick a random number out of thin air like…14? (Actually, it’s all to…
This week, in issue 9, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN & MATS…
This week, in issue 8, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end SHEILA & B.DEVOTION Title: King…
Title: The Collection Label: Floating World Goodness, this man had a tough life. It’s all there, abandoned by his parents when he was no age at all, having to work instead…
Title: Loose Salute Label: Music on Vinyl Who would have thought that an ex-Monkee would end up being a space cowboy? More than that, who would have thought that his solo…
Title: The Early Years Label: Jasmine We all know Campbell, don’t we? His hits are still played on national radio while the best of them remain the core of many cover…
Title: Ten/Greatest Hits: Live & Kickin’/Western Standard Time/Keepin’ Me Up Nights Label: Floating World Bob Wills was and still is the godfather of Western swing in terms of country music and, back…
Title: Byrd’s Expedition Label: Richard Weize Archives Byrd was a lap steel guitarist – as opposed to a pedal steel guitarist. The man was also a legend in guitar circles. So…
Title: Live at the Fillmore, February 1969 Label: Floating World This disc represents an interesting time for The Byrds. Only a year before, original band members Roger McGuinn and Christ Hillman…
Title: Wonderful Wanda plus Lovin’ Country Style Label: Hoodoo Jackson is known as a rockabilly singer and a darned good one too. Her father encouraged her to do just that. More…
Title: Too Far to Care Label: Music on Vinyl An alt-country outfit, emerging in 1993 and hosting a name that pays due respect to a love of trains, the band started…
Title: Copperfield Label: Man in the Moon I find it confusing and slightly irritating that The Dillards don’t get more attention and respect for their talents and genuine boundary-breaking career. This…
The Grand Ole Opry – the mecca of country music. Paul Rigby talks to Opry expert, Professor Kristine M. McCusker about how, in the early days, it struggled to cope with rockabilly and…
Title: Shutters and Boards Label: Jasmine He was known as Mr Smooth and was so for a very good reason. He was blessed with an easy going, baritone that flowed like…
Title: The Trouble With The Truth Label: Bear Family Well, he was new to me but Smith (or ‘Q’, as he was known to his friends) produced and sold hundreds of…
Title: Sleeper Catcher/First Under Wire Label: Lemon Australia has produced several notable music artists but how many of you remember this group? They were big in the seventies mixing a country…
Title: Sun Singles Label: Bear Family Of late, a range of classic albums has filled this column. Sometimes, though, classic cuts do not and cannot fill an album. Yet they are…
Elizabeth Cook Title: Exodus of Venus Label: Agent Love Cook was always odds-on to be a country singer because her parents had a working honky tonk band and daughter Elizabeth appeared…
Kenny Loggins Title: Sittin’ In Label: Audio Fidelity From 1971, originally released on the Colombia label and Loggins’ 11 track debut (effectively) with a firm additional credit heading towards Jim Messina…
Title: Midwest Farmer’s Daughter Label: Third Man Records An intriguing artist because Price harks back to the past in terms of her singing style, taking a leaf from the likes of…
Title: In Style Again Label: Plowboy A distinguished country singer, Brown has had a fruitful career, initially as a member and lead male vocalist of the 50s outfit, The Browns. Come…
Title: Please Help Me I’m Falling & Happy Journey Label: Jasmine Sometimes unfairly forgotten but Locklin had one of the supreme tenor voices of country music. He had a real sense…
Title: That Kind Of Girl Label: Windbone This is an interesting album, not least because it was created using something called PledgeMusic which is, and I quote, “An online Direct-to-Fan music…
Title: Coat of Many Colours Label: Music on Vinyl A truly beautiful album from, at the time of the release of this LP in 1971, an emerging ‘solo’ country star. Of course,…