[Updated May 26th 2018]
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)
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
