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Album:The Silent World Of Hector Mann

Website: http://www.dukespecial.com

It's difficult to underestimate the impact that Duke Special and his band have had in introducing a new generation into old timey and vaudville inspired songs. The first contact may have been over look and style, but it was backed with substance. "The Silent World Of Hector Mann" conrinues that. If it gets Duke more fan, great. If if it gets more of Dukes fans into the wider genre so much the better. The quality of the writting, arrangements and vocal have delivered an album that will really reach across the generations. It's got class written across it in 20ft high letters.

Album:Inner Revolution

Website: http://www.philipsayce.com

Hard rocking, Welsh born, bluesman Philip Sayce returns with a new studio album, "Inner Revolution". Sayce's reputation has been growing since he stepped out into the spotlight having been sidesman to artists like Jeff Healey and Melissa Etheridge. His growing reputation as one of the rising stars of axe driven blues is rapidly cementing into being one of the established stars. His writing, both solo and in collaboration is also getting attention as a creator of song, not just interpretor. It's said that the role of lead guitar is making a comeback, in blues it never went away.

Album:Where Lovers Die

Website: http://www.ghosttrains.net

"Where Lovers Die" is available from the Ghost Train website as a free download and in all honesty, you'ld be mad not to take them up on their offer. Naturally there's also an opportunity to buy a proper physical copy ofv the album and we hope you go on and do that becuase it's a strong album that stands by it's self. As the title suggests their is a darkness that infuses album, made all the more dramatic by the strength of the harmony vocals that deliver it. It's an album that flits in and out of the shadows and the depths to create an album of melancholic beauty.

Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire

Website: www.myspace.com/rickettsandwillshire

Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire have put together a really light uplifting debut album. The album speaks with the confidence of a duo that know they've found a special spark and are delivering on it. The album's called "Simple Folk" and in all honesty it is, but it's delivered with an almost hypnotic quality that demands you enjoy it. It captures the physical sides of life, as well as the emotional. Slack morals and hard graft, slices of a world you can relate to because you've been to parts of it. It's an album I walk away from happier than when I went in and that can't be bad.

Album:Baby Wolves Abound

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

Best known as the guitarist from The Owl Service and as part of a duo with Nancy Wallace, there is a sparseness to Jason Steel's solo material. It feels like it's been recorded on a back porch with Jason just playing to please himself and gradually family and friends gather to sit on the lawn and listen with respect. "Baby Wolves Abound" isn't a live album, but has sense of being captured as single takes. You can almost feel an early 20th century song collector turning up in a backwoods town and thinking he's hit pay dirt. Beautifully sparse from start to finish.

Album:Temporary Identity

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

Whilst "Temporary Identity" has got Tom Martin's name on the cover, it comes across as very much a band effort. More importantly a band that's got used to living in each other's pockets. It's folk blues with a laid back vibe and a light touch. Tom wtites songs that touch on the grit and grime of life, but manages to capture a real sense of the spirit of the people he's writing about. Times are tough, but don't let the b#stards grind you down, you're better than that, we're better than that. Tom's songs move through a community of equals and that really starts with the band.

Joanna Chapman-Smith

Label:Woundup Records

Website: http://www.joannacs.com

"Contrararies" is a very cosmopolitan album that absorbs a number of musical styles that feel inspired by Europe, both East & West. It's almost got a patchwork quilt quality to it. A panel from France, a panel of kletzmer, a panel of Scotland etc. Then you realise that it's Joanna Chapman-Smith's composition skills that bring the album together. She collects folk tales across her native Canada and then aborbs the influences into her work, resulting in an album that could genuinely be considered world music. Add in a guest or two to complete the eclectic elegance.

Album:Heads I Win Tails You Lose

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

Britain is producing a new generation of top young guitarists at the moment. There's someting really vital going on in that electric blues space. Only Oli Brown can say that he managed to tempt legendary blues producer out of retirement to do the desk thing on his sophomore album, "Heads I Win Tails You Lose". Brown was already performing songs that belied his years. This album takes him into a different league. It's the cover of the standard "Fever" that confirms the position. You already know the song so it's only the performance that'll blow you away and it does.

Album:The Road To Nashville

Label:Southern Imperial

Website: http://www.emilfriis.com

There is something about Emil Friis voice that just doesn't cut it for me. "The Road To Nashville" is an album of Americana/Country from Copenhaen based Friis. That alone gives the songs a different feel, mainly because of the way the words and arrangements come through, this isn't a bad thing, it gives the songs a differnt feel to artists that were brought up in the US, a reimagining as it were. It gives the ear a slightly different sound to work with and helps make the songs stand out. It's more that Emil has one of those voices that reminds you of nails on a blackboard.

Website: http://www.richardkitson.com

Supported by the likes of Gerry McNeice and Fatea favorite Kat Gilmore, rising singer/songwriter, Richard Kitson deivers an album that is, well, "Home And Dry". If there really was a lost generation of male folk singers, this album is one that shows the Y chromosone is definitely back and contributing the world of contemporary folk. There is a strength to Kitson's writing that gives you the feeling that his songs will have the potential to survive the long march into becoming traditional. He's well supported in his cause and delivers an album well worth your consideration.

Website: http://www.donaldonohoe.com

This one has been out a while, but has only just dropped into the office. The majority of "Ceol's Rann" is recorded in Gaelic, but there is a nod or three to the English language across the album. One of those tracks, "The Voyages Of Bran" is in someways the keystone that allows the album to arch between the two cultures, allowing the non native to get a real sense of what the album is about. It has to be said that Donal Donohoe is not the most pitch perfect of singers, but that engenders the songs with a personality that many would polish out, giving the album a real homely feel

Album:Can I Get There By Candlelight:An Irish tribute To David McWilliams

Website: http:www.smithco.nl

As tribute albums go, "Can I Get There By Candlelight" is a strange one. Not only paying homage to his songs, but also to the people that inspired his performaces in his formative 'showband' years, the likes of Buddy Holly, whose record label Coral provided the name for David McWilliams first band. The short years since his death in 2005 have not been kind to McWilliams from this side of the Irish Sea it's been difficult to assess the legacy of a man who was regularly named alongside Dylan and Donovan. This 2cd set gives him some context and a reason to check out the legacy