Reviews
Songs Lost & Stolen
In 2008 Bella Hardy, a young singer from Edale in Derbyshire, stepped onto the stage at the Royal Albert Hall...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Round Top Wagon
Thomas McCarthy was brought up on the Travellers’ site in Ladbroke Grove, although he spent a lot of time in...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
God Speed the Plough
Our views of history are at best partial and often misguided. Historians go to great lengths to put us right....
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Schladtzshe!
Raise your glasses and drink a toast: the new CD by Finnish harmonica quartet Sväng has arrived. This brilliant foursome...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Obacht! Musik aus Bayern 2
You will, no doubt, have heard of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the American Alan Lomax. But...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Lo Mau d'Amor
Singers Paola Lombardo and Valeria Benigni are vocalists with distinctively different qualities: the former retaining her jazz upbringing, the latter...
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The Impossible Song & Other Songs
The former Idlewild singer follows his acclaimed album Before the Ruin, made as a trio with guitarist and singer Kris...
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Festival Bell
Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...
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Tyro
What an assured and brilliant debut this is. Rua Macmillan was awarded the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of...
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Oak Ash Thorn
The legend and music of Peter Bellamy looms large over the new generation of British folk stars. Many of them...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
