Album Review: Siobhan Miller – ‘Mercury’

Album Review: Siobhan Miller – ‘Mercury’

Siobhan Miller, “Mercury” (Songprint Recordings)-The  eagerly anticipated follow up to Siobhan Miller’s critically acclaimed 2017 set,”Strata,” dispenses  with the impeccable cover versions which have been such a feature of her recorded output to date in favour of a batch of...
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Comic Book Review: Gunning For Hits by Jeff Rougvie

Comic Book Review: Gunning For Hits by Jeff Rougvie

Allllll Night…he wants the young American… Yes, he does, and not in the way your over active imaginations are working, I can see them now zero to sixty in 0.5 seconds. Settle down young ‘uns, for I have a tale...
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Album Review: Rosanne Cash – She Remembers Everything

Album Review: Rosanne Cash – She Remembers Everything

Rosanne Cash, “She Remembers Everything” (Blue Note Records)-It can never be easy to live a rewarding creative life in the daunting  shadow of a famous father, but Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter has coped admirably with the additional pre...
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Album Review: Jess Klein – Back To My Green

Album Review: Jess Klein – Back To My Green

Jess Klein, “Back To My Green” (Blue Rose Records)- “Back To My Green” is the first offering  that alt country singer-songwriter Jess Klein has unleashed on an unsuspecting world since she made the momentous decision to tie the kno...
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Album Review: Cane Hill – ‘Kill The Sun’

Album Review: Cane Hill – ‘Kill The Sun’

Winter Chills Its Christmas my friends and after drinking the turkey and stuffing the beer (I think that’s how it goes…) I settle down at the fireside and unwrap the Christmas gift from my boss. Cane Hill, having recently completed...
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Album Review: Bowling For Soup – ‘Older, Fatter, Still the Greatest Ever: Live from Brixton’

Album Review: Bowling For Soup – ‘Older, Fatter, Still the Greatest Ever: Live from Brixton’

Bowling For Soup’s ever stable popularity shows no sign of wavering and anyone who saw them in 2018 will testify to the band’s nostalgic nouse. Recorded at the sold-out Brixton show. in front of a rabid crowd of Ska-Punks and...
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Album Review: Reel Big Fish – ‘Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!’

Album Review: Reel Big Fish – ‘Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!’

Ska-Punk originals Reel Big Fish return with the up tempo ‘Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!’. The album kicks off with the running on the spot cartoon-ish title track ‘Life Sucks’. The track itself has a thick 2-Tone spine but it still evokes...
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Album Review: Kathy Mattea – Pretty Bird

Album Review: Kathy Mattea – Pretty Bird

Kathy Mattea, “Pretty Bird” (Thirty Tigers)-  Kathy Mattea has been inactive on the recording front since the release of 2012’s bluegrass orientated “Calling Me Home,” but the West Virginia born country singer has now returne...
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Album Review: Chet Baker – My Time With Chet

Album Review: Chet Baker – My Time With Chet

Chet Baker, “My Time With Chet” (Sleepy Night Records)-This affecting anthology draws on recordings made at various venues around the world by record producer and Chet Baker devotee Ernie Garside during the latter stages of the Jazz vocalist and tr...
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Album Review: Asleep at the Wheel – New Routes

Album Review: Asleep at the Wheel – New Routes

Asleep at the Wheel, “New Routes” (Thirty Tigers)-The various incarnations of Asleep at the Wheel  have been plying their trade for almost half a century now , blending country, jazz,rockabilly and western swing  elements in near perfect proporti...
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