[Updated November 25th 2019]
folking.com reviews
David Harley is currently reviewing CDs for folking.com. Here are links to those I’ve done so far:
- ANDREW JOHN & LISSA – At Home (Last Resort Records LRCD010)
- THE LOWEST PAIR – Uncertain As It Is Uneven (Team Love Records TL-93 ) – Fern Girl & Ice Man (Team Love Records TL-94)
- BAP KENNEDY – Reckless Heart (Last Chance Records LCR 048)
- HAT FITZ & CARA – After The Rain (own label)
- UB40 FEATURING ALI, ASTRO AND MICKEY – Unplugged + Greatest Hits (UMC)
- ANDREW JOHN & LISSA – Aren’t We Lucky (Last Resort Records LRCD011)
- THE FLYING TOADS – Warts ‘N All (Own Label)
- RAPSQUILLION – Earthly Joys (Own Label)
- RAB NOAKES – The Treatment Tapes EP (Neon Records NEONCD018)
- JOHN RENBOURN & WIZZ JONES – Joint Control (Riverboat Records TUGCD1095)
- BENJAMIN WILLIAM PIKE – A Burdensome Year (Gin House Records)
- ATLANTIC UNION – Homeward (Blue Island Records BI201601)
- RODNEY CROWELL – Close Ties (New West Records 6354)
- TERENCE WINCH, MICHAEL WINCH, AND JESSE WINCH – This Day Too: Music from Irish America (Free Dirt Records CTM-CD-002)
- CALAN – Solomon (Sain Records SCD2749)
- OCCIDENTAL GYPSY – 44070 (own label)
- KEITH JAMES – Tenderness Claws (Hurdy Gurdy HGA2926)
- CORY FLYNN – A Boy Named Hunger (Long Way Home Music LWHM 003)
- MEGAN HENWOOD – River (Dharma Records DHARMACD30)
- MIKE BROOKFIELD – Brookfield (Golden Rule Records GRCD003)
- MARRY WATERSON & DAVID A. JAYCOCK – Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love (One Little Indian Records TPLP1419CDP)
- JOOST DE LANGE’S ROCK BLUES EXPERIENCE – Live In Antwerp (own label)
- DAVY GRAHAM – Folk, Blues & Beyond (Bread & Wine BRINECD1)
- SHANKARA ANDY BOLE – Rainbow Crow (Left Leg Records LL2017)
- GHALIA & MAMA’S BOYS – Let The Demons Out (Ruf Records RUF 1250)
- ASSEMBLY LANE – Northbound (own label ALCD01)
- THE STONED CHERRIES – Baked In A Pie (own label)
- THE COMPANY OF PLAYERS – Shakespeare Songs (own label)
- GREENMATTHEWS – A Christmas Carol: A Folk Opera (Blast Records BFTP011)
- JACK BRETT – Plays The Blues And Other Melodic Misfortunes (JBR Records)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – The Transports – A Tale Of Exile And Migration (Hudson Records HUD007LP/CD)
- SARAH McQUAID – If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Shovel And A Spade Records SAASCD001)
- WILDE ROSES – Wilde Roses (Blood & Desire BNDR02CD)
- TRENT MILLER – Time Between Us (Bucketfull Of Brains BOB801)
- KEITH JAMES – Captured: The Best Of Keith James (Hurdy Gurdy HGA2927)
- BLACKBEARD’S TEA PARTY – Leviathan! – my brief review of this EP is one of the items in the collaborative review SINGLES BAR 28 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – Johnny Cash Forever Words (Legacy Recordings)
- GARETH OWEN – Rolling By (own label)
- Ó CONAILL FAMILY AND FRIENDS – Let’s Have Another Gan Ainm (Digital release)
- DÓNAL CLANCY – On The Lonesome Plain (Proper/Copperplate DCLPCD16)
- SERIOUS CHILD – Empty Nest (TCR Music TCRM75099)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – Destination (Fellside Recordings FECD282)
- RAB NOAKES – Welcome To Anniversaryville (Neon Records NEONCD021)
- PAUL COWLEY – [Just What I Know] (Lou B Music LBM 005 2018)
- YVES LAMBERT TRIO – Tentation (La Prûche Libre PRU2 4818)
- JULIE JULY BAND – Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Aurora Folk Records JJB18CD1)
- MARTIN BARRE – Roads Less Travelled (Garage Records GAR0002)
- WILL KEATING – Cornwall My Home (Kernow Ow Thre) (Own Label)
- GILMORE & ROBERTS – A Problem Of Our Kind (GR! GRR08)
- KARINE POLWART – Laws Of Motion (Hudson Records HUD014)
- GARETH OWEN – I’m Out Of This Place (own label)
- TOWNES VAN ZANDT – Down Home & Abroad (Retroworld FLOATD6377)
- JOHN MAYALL– Nobody Told Me (Forty Below Records FBR 022)
- MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS – Live In Manitoba (Nobody’s Favourite Records NFR041)
- STEVE GARRETT – Discover And Endure (Alt Mor Records ALT-MOR2) INNES
- WATSON’S GUITAR COLLOQUIUM – Guitar Colloquium (ISLE Music Scotland ISLE06)
- SEAN TAYLOR – The Path Into Blue (Sean Taylor Songs STCD113)
- Julie July Band live in Penzance
- KY BURT – The Sky In Between (Woodstove Records)
- CARRIE TREE – The Canoe (Own Label WCRCD05)
- ODETTE MICHELL – The Wildest Rose (Own Label)
- DARIA KULESH – Earthly Delights (own label)
- KEITH JAMES – Message From The Gods (Hurdy Gurdy HGA2928)
- BURNING SALT – Automatic Lullaby (Own Label)
- JULIE JULY BAND – Lady Of The First Light (Aurora Folk Records JJB19CD1)
- KAREN MARSHALSAY – The Road to Kennacraig (Cramasie Records CRCD001)
- BALDRICK’S PLAN – Counting The Tides (Grandplan Records GPR1902)
- THE LOST WORDS – Spell Songs (Folk By The Oak QRCD004)
- RALPH McTELL – Hill Of Beans (Leola Music TPGCD50)
- FINN PAUL – Wind & Stone (Independent Release IWCD001)
- JOHN RICHARDS – Bring Back The Spring (Working Joe Music WJMCD2019)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS – Sunshine Of Your Love: A Concert For Jack Bruce (MIG Records MIG02192)
- THE YEHLA COLLECTIVE – Steel Strings And Iron Curtains – Songs that Ignited The Downfall of Communism (Sun King Records)
- ATLANTIC UNION – Indulgence (Blue Island Records CD 20191)
Sabrinaflu reviews
- Review of a stunning CD by Daria Kulesh: DARIA KULESH – Long Lost Home (own label)
- I usually put up (or link to) reviews both here and at Wheal Alice, but I don’t seem to have remembered with this one, so here’s a link to the Wheal Alice review: Bert Jansch – a belated review. Yes, it took me around 50 years to acquire my own copy of Bert’s first album, though I already knew it quite well from years ago, of course.
- A review by courtesy of Keith Whiddon (of The Flying Toads and Bouzatina): Review: Emma and the Professor’s ‘Old Black Crow’.
- Review of Mal Brown’s excellent CD Sharp Stones and Tender Hearts
- Review of a lovely CD by Martin Thomas: CD Review: ‘Pieces’ by Martin Thomas
- Flying Toads CD review (an excellent collection of tunes and songs: not the same, more recent CD reviewed for folking.com – see link above).
- Ring Around the Land is a review by Fliss of a CD by Red Shoes.
- And here are a couple I made earlier. [DH]
- A Shropshire Lad: a 1994 CD by the late Michael Raven with vocals by Joan Mills, featuring settings of poems by A.E. Housman alternating with Welsh traditional (mostly) tunes played on solo guitar. Originally posted on my Shropshire Blues blog (which is more about Shropshire than blues!).
- Vagrant Stanzas: a review of the 2013 recording by Martin Simpson. Originally posted on my personal web page.
Wheal Alice reviews
Bert Jansch – a belated review – yes, it’s the CD version of that 50+-year-old first album. Of which I finally own a copy…
And back to Features…
David Harley
