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Amelia White
Album:Beautiful And Wild
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.ameliawhite.com
Born and bred Virginian, Amelia White returns to the UK with her fifth release, "Beautiful And Wilde", eleven tracks of blues tinged, country, americana. It's one of those awkward albums that make you feel a bit like a voyeur, intruding on an artist trying to get the baggage of a collapsing relationship of her chest, something this genre seems to do so well. The title track was actually penned about Amelia's and former Lucinda Williams cohort Duane Jarvis not long before his untimely death. White's heartfelt rendition of the song, is a mighty fine tribute indeed.
Album:Beautiful And Wild
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.ameliawhite.com
Born and bred Virginian, Amelia White returns to the UK with her fifth release, "Beautiful And Wilde", eleven tracks of blues tinged, country, americana. It's one of those awkward albums that make you feel a bit like a voyeur, intruding on an artist trying to get the baggage of a collapsing relationship of her chest, something this genre seems to do so well. The title track was actually penned about Amelia's and former Lucinda Williams cohort Duane Jarvis not long before his untimely death. White's heartfelt rendition of the song, is a mighty fine tribute indeed.
The James Low Western Front
Album:Whiskey Farmer
Label:Union Made
Website:http://www.jameslowwesternfront.com
The James Low Western Front have absorbed themselves in that north west country sound and used it to deliver a poignant, eposodic album, that's as rich lyrically as it is in observation. Summed up in the line "I'm a whiskey farmer looking to grow chamnagne" this is an album of self betterment, based on good honest graft rather than by trying to take your fellow man for a ride. This is an album with a story to tell and arguably this is what americana was invented to deliver. James Low has captured the story of an essentially honest man stuck in small town America.
Album:Whiskey Farmer
Label:Union Made
Website:http://www.jameslowwesternfront.com
The James Low Western Front have absorbed themselves in that north west country sound and used it to deliver a poignant, eposodic album, that's as rich lyrically as it is in observation. Summed up in the line "I'm a whiskey farmer looking to grow chamnagne" this is an album of self betterment, based on good honest graft rather than by trying to take your fellow man for a ride. This is an album with a story to tell and arguably this is what americana was invented to deliver. James Low has captured the story of an essentially honest man stuck in small town America.
Stephen Dale Petit
Album:The BBC Sessions
Label:333Records
Website:http://www.guitararama.co.uk/
This twelve tracker covers three different Radio 2 sessions recorded over a two year period, 2007-9, with each featuring a different line up. All of this conspires to give the album as a whole a disjointed feel, but it does mean there'll e something different along in a minute and the interview at the end with Bob Harris means that you get to understand some of Stephen Dale Petit's thought processes as well as his scintilating blues guitar. The great things bout sessions is that they are live performances which gives the artists a license to be themselves without restraint.
Album:The BBC Sessions
Label:333Records
Website:http://www.guitararama.co.uk/
This twelve tracker covers three different Radio 2 sessions recorded over a two year period, 2007-9, with each featuring a different line up. All of this conspires to give the album as a whole a disjointed feel, but it does mean there'll e something different along in a minute and the interview at the end with Bob Harris means that you get to understand some of Stephen Dale Petit's thought processes as well as his scintilating blues guitar. The great things bout sessions is that they are live performances which gives the artists a license to be themselves without restraint.
Nimming Ned
Album:Summon The Crows
Label:Folkwit
Website:http://www.nimmingned.com
Things seem to have been really happening for Nimming Ned since we last caught up with them. For a start they've doubled in size, now a four piece and signed to Nottingham avent garde folk indie, Folkwit and it's from there that they released full blown album "Summon The Crows". The fuller sound makes the band more accessible, gives more depth to the hobo folk blues, which bizarrely and mainly through Chris Woods vocal styly and Jim Walker's fiddle seems to take on an almost Nivarnaesque quality. "Summon The Crows" atmosphere, it's good honest fun and great value.
Album:Summon The Crows
Label:Folkwit
Website:http://www.nimmingned.com
Things seem to have been really happening for Nimming Ned since we last caught up with them. For a start they've doubled in size, now a four piece and signed to Nottingham avent garde folk indie, Folkwit and it's from there that they released full blown album "Summon The Crows". The fuller sound makes the band more accessible, gives more depth to the hobo folk blues, which bizarrely and mainly through Chris Woods vocal styly and Jim Walker's fiddle seems to take on an almost Nivarnaesque quality. "Summon The Crows" atmosphere, it's good honest fun and great value.
The Haiku
Album:Among The Stars
Label:Self released
Website:http://www.thehaiku.co.uk
It looks like it's going to be busy spell for The Haiku around their third full length release, "Among The Stars". They've scheduled a mini tour around the album launch in early March, but in order to get the juices flowing, the band are making a single, "To The Night" available away through their website immediately. There's a harder, more agressive sound to the new album, more power in a delivery that strongly relects the underlying anger that society and the band with those that seem intent on buying their way out of the we're all in this together society.
Album:Among The Stars
Label:Self released
Website:http://www.thehaiku.co.uk
It looks like it's going to be busy spell for The Haiku around their third full length release, "Among The Stars". They've scheduled a mini tour around the album launch in early March, but in order to get the juices flowing, the band are making a single, "To The Night" available away through their website immediately. There's a harder, more agressive sound to the new album, more power in a delivery that strongly relects the underlying anger that society and the band with those that seem intent on buying their way out of the we're all in this together society.
Danny Bryant's Redeye Band
Album:Night Life
Label:Jazzhaus
Website:http://www.dannybryant.com
Danny Bryant's decision to become Danny Bryant's Redeye Band seems to be paying dividends, by spreading the responsibilty whilst remaining the name at the front seems to have given him more opportunity to be himself. He's playing about a hundred and fifty gigs a year, mainly on the European mainland and as this live album, "Night Life" shows he's treating his fans to some good, old fashioned, hard rocking blues, complete with a whole host of accompanying expressions, judging by the sleeve. There are words that go with the songs on the album, but it's the playing that stands out.
Album:Night Life
Label:Jazzhaus
Website:http://www.dannybryant.com
Danny Bryant's decision to become Danny Bryant's Redeye Band seems to be paying dividends, by spreading the responsibilty whilst remaining the name at the front seems to have given him more opportunity to be himself. He's playing about a hundred and fifty gigs a year, mainly on the European mainland and as this live album, "Night Life" shows he's treating his fans to some good, old fashioned, hard rocking blues, complete with a whole host of accompanying expressions, judging by the sleeve. There are words that go with the songs on the album, but it's the playing that stands out.
Ceri James
Album:The Lost Souls Parade
Label:Heed
Website:http://www.cerijames.com
Self produced third studio album from SE London based alternative singersongwriter recorded with an extremely talented group of musicians. This a fine collection of songs and stories interwoven with wonderful melodies that captures the spirit of folk/rock indie & pop. The album has its dark moments like "I've Seen The Devil(Bonus Track)", "Mistress Muse" but it also has some uplifting ones too through tracks like The Real Coffee Shop and Michelangelo's Apostle. The album embraces a range styles including alt folk, rock and country tinges.
Album:The Lost Souls Parade
Label:Heed
Website:http://www.cerijames.com
Self produced third studio album from SE London based alternative singersongwriter recorded with an extremely talented group of musicians. This a fine collection of songs and stories interwoven with wonderful melodies that captures the spirit of folk/rock indie & pop. The album has its dark moments like "I've Seen The Devil(Bonus Track)", "Mistress Muse" but it also has some uplifting ones too through tracks like The Real Coffee Shop and Michelangelo's Apostle. The album embraces a range styles including alt folk, rock and country tinges.
Delta Moon
Album:Hell Bound Train
Label:Music Avenue
Website:http://www.deltamoon.com
Ironically my first listen to this CD was on a train - thankfully not hellbound like the one in the song! I had never heard of this band,but it seems they are well known as a nationally touring blues-rock band. In 2008, The American Roots Music Association named lead singer Tom Gray as Blues Songwriter of the Year; his songs having been recorded by such artists as Cyndi Lauper, Manfred Mann and Carlene Carter. This is a great, often fun, collection of songs, enhanced by great musicians on lap steel and slide guitar, creating a real Delta Blues sound.(HM)
Album:Hell Bound Train
Label:Music Avenue
Website:http://www.deltamoon.com
Ironically my first listen to this CD was on a train - thankfully not hellbound like the one in the song! I had never heard of this band,but it seems they are well known as a nationally touring blues-rock band. In 2008, The American Roots Music Association named lead singer Tom Gray as Blues Songwriter of the Year; his songs having been recorded by such artists as Cyndi Lauper, Manfred Mann and Carlene Carter. This is a great, often fun, collection of songs, enhanced by great musicians on lap steel and slide guitar, creating a real Delta Blues sound.(HM)
Chris Moore
Album:Renaissance
Label:Get Out
Website:http://www.chrismooreacoustic.com
We don't get as many instrumental albums as we'd like through the office and guitar only albums seem to be synched to a blue moon. It's knife edge between showcasing your playing and writing talents verses sounding like an indulgent jamming session. "Renaissance" definitely stays on the sharp side of the knife, cutting 12 exciting and interesting tracks out of Chris Moore's electro-acoustic. He indulges his passion for the guitar as an instrument capable of standing on it's own as unaccopmanied star of a performance rather than to support voice and band and does it well.
Album:Renaissance
Label:Get Out
Website:http://www.chrismooreacoustic.com
We don't get as many instrumental albums as we'd like through the office and guitar only albums seem to be synched to a blue moon. It's knife edge between showcasing your playing and writing talents verses sounding like an indulgent jamming session. "Renaissance" definitely stays on the sharp side of the knife, cutting 12 exciting and interesting tracks out of Chris Moore's electro-acoustic. He indulges his passion for the guitar as an instrument capable of standing on it's own as unaccopmanied star of a performance rather than to support voice and band and does it well.
Spacedog
Album:Juice For The Baby
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.spacedogmusic.com
There are some albums that you know are going to be unsettling and challenging before you put them on the cd player, words like theremin and vibraphone offer clues. "Juice For The Baby" is just such an album, art-psyche trio Spacedog have hit out with an album that explores their own songs with dark folk songs. "The Trees They Do Grow High" is the best version of that tale I've heard in a good while. This is not an easily accessible album, but it has moments of abstract beauty and conspires to have a lot of them. Dark and thought provoking.
Album:Juice For The Baby
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.spacedogmusic.com
There are some albums that you know are going to be unsettling and challenging before you put them on the cd player, words like theremin and vibraphone offer clues. "Juice For The Baby" is just such an album, art-psyche trio Spacedog have hit out with an album that explores their own songs with dark folk songs. "The Trees They Do Grow High" is the best version of that tale I've heard in a good while. This is not an easily accessible album, but it has moments of abstract beauty and conspires to have a lot of them. Dark and thought provoking.
Rusty Anderson
Album:Until We Meet Again
Label:Hypertension
Website:http://www.rustyanderson.com
Even though he's probably best known for being Paul McCartney's guitarist for the last decade, he has also produced a steady and acclaimed series of album in his own name. As with albums many top sidesmen/session players, "Until We Meet Again" is quite understated, he shows that he is more than an axeman, he's quite a songwriter, comfortable in his own skin and talent, knowing that he doesn't have to indulge in fireworks and theatrics to get across what he's trying to convey. The result is an album that continues to grow with repeated plays.
Album:Until We Meet Again
Label:Hypertension
Website:http://www.rustyanderson.com
Even though he's probably best known for being Paul McCartney's guitarist for the last decade, he has also produced a steady and acclaimed series of album in his own name. As with albums many top sidesmen/session players, "Until We Meet Again" is quite understated, he shows that he is more than an axeman, he's quite a songwriter, comfortable in his own skin and talent, knowing that he doesn't have to indulge in fireworks and theatrics to get across what he's trying to convey. The result is an album that continues to grow with repeated plays.
The Wiyos
Album:Broken Land Bell
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.thewiyos.com
The Wiyos have been on the circuit for 6 years now, by way of New Orleans and New York, both of which heavily influenced their sound and performance; it is said that they follow in the tradition of medicine show buskers and vaudeville acts. "Broken Land Bell", their fourth CD, primarily blends country, blues and Western Swing, to create a rather unique sound. Dontchaletmecatchya is delivered quickly, with a great sound which clearly comes from New Orleans, taking us on a brief musical journey through some of the Southern States.(HM)
Album:Broken Land Bell
Label:Self Released
Website:http://www.thewiyos.com
The Wiyos have been on the circuit for 6 years now, by way of New Orleans and New York, both of which heavily influenced their sound and performance; it is said that they follow in the tradition of medicine show buskers and vaudeville acts. "Broken Land Bell", their fourth CD, primarily blends country, blues and Western Swing, to create a rather unique sound. Dontchaletmecatchya is delivered quickly, with a great sound which clearly comes from New Orleans, taking us on a brief musical journey through some of the Southern States.(HM)
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