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Album:Fatea Showcase Session Summer 10:Voyages

Website: http://www.fatea-showcase-sessions.co.uk

With the usual caveat that this is the latest release in our downloads. Featuring 16 top duos from across the acoustic spectrum, folk, country, blues, bluegrass, singer/songwriter, "Voyages" is available to you at no charge simply follow the link and download the album. If you like what you hear, visit the artists sites and order a recording or two. Whilst the featured artists may not be familiar names yet, we're sure you'll agree that this Session, like its predecessors is absolutely packed full of talent that deserve to reach a wider audience. Please download and enjoy!

Album:Company Of Ghosts

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

I don't think there is anyone that manages to infuse their songs with such a great sense of drama as Lizzie Nunnery. She draws on all of her creative skills as a wordsmith and playwright to breathe life into the characters and places. "Company Of Ghosts" is such an apt name as you can almost feel the people around you even thoughyou can't seem. As with her live work there's a presence in her material. Whether she's being political or emotional you can feel the song reaching to the core. Occasionaly this leads to the narrative overwhelming the instrumentation, but not fatally.

Landau * Ford * Haslip * Novak

Album:Renegade Creation

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

Michael Landau * Robben Ford * Jimmy Haslip * Gary Novak is how the artists are actually described on the sleeve, but there's not enough space in our title block. Just like at times there's not enough space for all the ego in the band. When they get it right it's some of the best electric blues you're going to hear in a longtime and for the purest there is some fantastic guitar work, but at times it came across as competive rather than free flowing. "Renegade Creation" does have a sense of freedom about it, a sense of friends giving it a go and seeing what rocks up.

Website: http://www.goldfrapp.com

Goldfrapp in Fatea? Surely they're electronica ? Right on both counts. Even having a fiddle player on a couple of tracks doesn't really justify their inclusion, nor the beautiful Abbaesque pop melodies. Similarly on it's own the lyrical quality and breathy vocal presentation wouldn't be enough to find space, but there is something about "Head First" that really appeals to our songwriting sensibilities. It may seem incredulous, but you can feel a beautiful more acoustic album wanting to breakout from the confines of the keyboards. Not our normally cup of tea, a refreshing change.

Website: http://www.jimmybowskill.com

Barely able to legally drink beer in the venues he plays, teenage blues prodigy Jimmy Bowskill is already three albums into his career. "Live" showcases the fact that he's not a studio player, he cn really turn it on with a passion that belies his age. He's been compared to a young Paul Rodgers and not without justification. He covers a couple of the Free man's songs on this set of songs and really does them justice. He's still learning his craft when it comes to songwriting, but the signs are good. At the moment he can still get by on the freshness of his playing as he gets it together.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Website: http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com

There are some that argue that "The Good Son" is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds best album, personally I'd argue for "The Murder Ballads", what I can't dispute is the incredible value of this remastered re-release that comes with an accompanying DVD. Whilst not to everyone's taste,they took noir to a new level, Nick and the boys always produced songs with great arrangements and real depth. You could return to the album time and time again and still get something different out of it. The musicianship and understanding between the players was top draw.

Album:This Time Around

Website: http://www.mitchladdie.com

Mitch Laddie blasts open "This Time Around" with a blistering electric blues instrumental, "Awakening" a track with more punch than Stevie Gerrard on a night out and then immediately contrasts it with the laid back "Here's A Drink". It means you're immediately aware that you are not dealing with a one trick pony, that this lad from the North East has really explored the blues heritage and knows how to make it deliver for him, albeit setting a mood or ripping a joint apart. He's not afraid to lob a standard or two amongst his self penned works so you know how good he really is.

Album:Wreck Your Wheels

Website: http://www.kimrichey.com

I've got into the habit of viewing Kim Richey releases as songbooks rather than as albums. She's got a way with both words and melody. She chooses to perform the majority of her songs with an Americana flavour, but you know they would work just as well in the folk and/or blues idiom as they've got such a strong structure from which to hang the aural veneer. "Wreck Your Wheels" is an album that you'll come back to because it's full of songs that are easy to relate to and more importantly feel a part of. Add to that some great musicianship and you've got the whole nine yards.

John Butler Trio

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

It's a welcome return for Australian acoustic rockers, the John Butler Trio. They appear to have moved more towards a more mainstream sound, it's reduced the influence of blues, but doesn't appear to have halted their forays into political songs. "April Rising" has got a really solid vibe, at times almost to hip hop proportions,including the vocal style, but it remains very obviously a John Butler Trio album. They've got a distinct instrumentation to their sound, they call on the history of the likes of Tactics and drive the sound into the twenty tens.

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

"Sonnet 155" is as the album title suggests influenced by the great bard himself, a certain William Shakespear. He's a figure that's featured prominently in Tim Arnold's life, Tim was master of music at the Globe. It's an album that's also being supported by three special events at the Almedia theatre. Inspired, innovative and incisive are amongst the many adjectives that can be thrown at this album with absolute ease. Its rock tones breathe life into an illustrious set of lyrics. There aren't many concept albums around any more and this one is pushing at the top echelon.

Website: http://www.downchild.com

"I Need A Hat" is a great highway eating blues album. It's got that rollin', strollin' rhythm that carries along the song, top blues riffs, the occasional blast of a horn section and a some good honest gob iron. Downchild are a sextet of highly competent musicians, including a singer that under most circumstances would be ok, but is spot on for get down dirty blues. For me is the instrumentation and arrangements that set this album alight, but it's also that they go into issues as well as the more conventional, emotional and hard drinking songs. Bankers beware, "Somebody Lied".

Leigh Mary Stokes

EP:Best Served With Tea & Biscuits

Website: http:www.leighmarystokes.co.uk

This ones been out for a while, but only recently came into my possession. Leigh Mary Stokes sits on the edge of antifolk and indie singer/songwriting and a touch of that classic English self-depreciation. "Best Served With Tea & Biscuits" does have an element of froth to it, it's also got a lot of songs from the personal perspective, but it's pulled off with a certain amount of wit and flare. There's even a delicious sense of tongue being placed firmly in the side of cheek for "Skint" which laments the age old problem, lack of cash. Its an ep that's easy to like and enjoy.