(A lot of…) CD reviews for folking.com

[Updated 16th December 2020]

This page is no longer being maintained regularly. Any further reviews for folking.com by David Harley will still be flagged on the Wheal Alice blog, and here if I remember!.

• 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) 
• 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 ASHEN – Slowdive (Kosi Records KOSI001)
• 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)
• GEMMA MAE ANDERSON – Life (own label GMAZE2CD)
• ADAM AMOS & NOEL ROCKS – Back Up To Zero (own label ARBR001)
• THE LOWEST PAIR – The Perfect Plan (Delicata Records DEL001)
• PAUL COWLEY – Brandéha (Lou B Music LBM 006 2020)
• DAN PENN – Living On Mercy (The Last Music Company LMCD219PUK)
• ÉILÍS KENNEDY– So Ends This Day (Copperplate Consultants COPP034)
• LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III – I’d Rather Lead A Band (Thirty Tigers)
• HANZ ARAKI & KATHRYN CLAIRE – Songs Of Love & Murder (The Celtic Conspiracy CELCON004)
• HANZ ARAKI & KATHRYN CLAIRE – A Winter Solstice Celebration (The Celtic Conspiracy CELCON001)
• HANZ ARAKI & KATHRYN CLAIRE – As I Roved Out: Songs Of Spring (The Celtic Conspiracy CELCON002)
• Actually a Zoom concert review, not a CD: DARIA KULESH & TRISTAN SEUME – online concert
• HANZ ARAKI & KATHRYN CLAIRE – The Emigrant’s Song/The Laborer’s Lament (The Celtic Conspiracy CELCON003)
• PETE McCLELLAND – The Way Back To You (Hobgoblin Records HOBCD1019)
• SINGLES BAR 61 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles – mostly by  Mike Davies, as usual, but I did enthuse about the new Sarah McQuaid single.
• LOVERIDGE – As The Crow Flies (Loveridge Records)
• SINGLES BAR 63 – A round-up of recent EPs and singles – again, mostly by Mike, but guess who reviewed Sarah McQuaid (two singles!) and Daria Kulesh’s EP?
• GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS – All The Good Times (Acony Records)

David Harley