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Album:Rags And Robes

Website: http://www.ewanmclennan.co.uk

Off the back of his self released debut album, we tipped Ewan McLennan as one to keep and eye on. It looks like Fellside felt the same way as he releases his new album, "Rags & Robes" through them. The album features songs that cover both his Scottish heritage and his current Yorkshire location. It's an album that's dominated by McLennan's incredible voice which he turns on traditional, contemporary and self penned songs. It's very much a people album telling tales of people's exploits both ordinary and extraordinary. "Yorkshire Regiment" bringing home the brutality of war.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/ianbaileymusic

"Tower Songs" is an album built on beautiful and solid instrumental foundations. Two of the songs on the album are fully instrumental, both showcase why sometimes words aren't necessary, both are performed by Ian Bailey as a duo with Richard Curran. There's a lush richness to the album a depth that at times takes on an almost spiritual level. There's a reflective quality too. You can lose yourself whilst listening to album, a sense of contemplation that fills the room and draws you into the serene, it's counterpointed by the images elequently sown in the lyrics

Website: http://www.thepinesmusic.com

Rockin', rollin' country blues from mid-west duo The Pines. Their sophomore album, "Tremolo" is very much a big sky album. You can feel the open spaces, visualise the long, straight roads, as the album takes you on a chilled, laid back journey, pausing only to sit on a tree stump and take the weight of the pedals. You can feel the heat of the midday sun and hear the echoes of the delta, but you can also pick up a more rock vibe that makes you think of a stripped down Jayhawks. It's an album of thoughtful reflection, one that types into the psyche.

The Rowan Amber Mill

Website: http://www.myspace.com/therowanambermill

With virtually no radio play, it's difficult to catch up with what's new and exciting in the world of folk rock, it's doubly true when said folk rock has got Pagan sensibilities literally through to the "Heartwood". Word of mouth is the main method of communication about bands like The Rowan Amber Mill, knowing someone in the know, well lets give a massive shout out for this, the full length album debut. The harmonies and vocal interplays may not be as pure and crystal as their Celtic counterpart, it's got an earthy sound that gives it an almost instant connection.

Album:Blues Kerosene

Website: http://www.egypt-blues.co.uk/

There are times when only the blues seem up to doing the job. Sometimes you need the delicate, soulful, spiritual blues, sometimes you just need to let the blues rock set the place on fire, not so much clear the cobwebs as napalm them right out of the door. If it's the latter you're wanting may we humbly suggest you check out Egypt and their new album, "Blues Kerosene". This classic power trio stuff, drums, bass, screaming guitars and raw vocal power. Half the time they turn the heat on their own numbers, half on the masters at whose feet they've studied.

Groucutt And Haynes

Album:...Another Good Reason

Website: http://www.groucuttandhaynes.com

This ones been out a while, but only recently dropped into the office and I'm really glad it did. "...Another Good Reason" has a touch of the troubadours about it. I guess it's a description guitar duos, particularly those that make such great use of harmony, will have to live with, but by subtle use of wind instruments across the album, Groucutt & Haynes add some sharp and unexpected flourishes to the album. There's two bonus tracks on the album, to complement the ten studio tracks, which give it a different feel to sign off by and hint that you might want to catch a gig or two

Label:Souterrain Transmissions

Website: http://www.tweakbird.com

Psycho filth hippie rock par excellence, probably best enjoyed with flashing lights and with a certain ambience in a smoke filled room. Even if "Tunneling Through" does sound like Max Wall's theme tune stuck through a fuzzbox and cranked up a thousand decibles. It's actually my favourite song on Freak Bird's self titled album, though slightly worried I cannot only remember Max Wall, but drop him into a review of an album that sounds like it could have been kicking against Vietnam if it had been fifty years earlier. The age of Aquarius is upon us..

Website: http://www.myspace.com/ericgales

Left handed axe man, Eric Gales, returns with his fourth year on year album and ninth in total, "Relentless". The title is no coindcidence as it sums up his ambition and approach. In addition to his own album, he's been asked to guest on scores of other albums and toured extensively, primarily, it has to be said in his native America. In the almost twenty years since his debut album, Gales has come on not only as an entertainer but also as a vocalist almost like he used to let his guitar do the talking for him, but now feels more comfortabl dueting voice and fretboard.

Website: http://www.jimmurdoch.org

There can't be many musicians that have had joint careers as a traditional circus clowns, Jim Murdoch is one. "Yonder Shore" is a strange album, four traditional tracks and eight self penned songs. Even if you didn't know the traditional songs, it would be easy to pick them out. Jim's own songs are quirkey, the lyrics don't quite scan, they sound like they really need a campfire chorus to do them justice, the instrumentation a little twee, a little too hopeful and yet somehow I find myself strangely drawn to them. You know you shouldn't, but you just can't help it.

Album:Dugdale's Flowers

Website: http://www.thesoundofjacksonhewitt.com

You cannot live a life without gathering emotions and sounds, you cannot portray the memories of those emotions honestly without giving away something of your inner self, the vulnerable pieces that make you who you are to the people that truly love you. Dugdales Flowers is a folk album, yet it is not a tribute to the styles of the past. It is its own living entity, it is here in the now, it is a body of work for today and beyond. Jackson~Hewitt through "Dugdales Flowers" show that something that is given freedom can always shake off the cobwebs and become something new.

Ghost Town Showdown

Album:Ghost Town Showdown

Website: http://www.ghosttownshowdown.com

"Ghost Town Showdown" is a mini album that finds it's self skirting along the border between skiffle and bluegrass with not enough songs about trains or guns to be truly either. There's the obligatory prison song and songs about chasing girls. It's got very live jaunty feel and I wouldn't be surprised to discover it was pretty much recorded studio live. Ghost Town Showdown are a trio that seem like they're having fun doing what their doing and want you to have a toe tapping good time, something they pretty much succeed in and the smile on the face comes as a bonus.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/paulgarry

A singer/songwriter heavily versed in the tradition........of pub rock. It's almost like Paul Garry is applying for the position of Rory McLeod's successor and "Love & Sin" is the apprentice piece and it's a great piece, gritty determined, steeped in the mythology of way too many inner city centres. Drugs and violence play a major part in the stories contained within the ten stories laid out on the album. They are interspersed with songs of hope, fulfilled and denied. Garry, has an eye that notices the small things and then builds big songs around them.