Click the icon above to see pre-January 2017 CD Reviews Expand the Table of Contents (below) to find the review you want SEPTEMBER 2017 NANCY KERR, HANNAH MARTIN, FINDLAY NAPIER, GREG RUSSELL, TIM YATES Shake The Chains QRCD003 www.shakethechains.com/home Greg Russell is a politics graduate; he performs in the award-winning duo with Ciaran Algar but also works…
Expand the Table of Contents to find the review you want DECEMBER 2016 THE RUMBLESTRUTTERS Prohibition Blues RS001 www.therumblestrutters.com/home Pub regulars and folk fans, beware! Swansea-based jug band The Rumblestrutters have launched their debut album, jam-packed with songs of bootleg liquor, all-night parties and bacchanalia, washed down with a bountiful supply of authentic and not-so-authentic…
by Mick Tems One of the perks of a good many years’ reviewing, writing and reporting on the roots scene is my bulging, bursting album collection. It’s a pointer to more than 40 years of exciting, wonderful history, and my eyes and ears have been influenced by many brilliant and exotic sounds from Wales, Europe…