Expand the Table of Contents (below) to find the review you want SEPTEMBER 2019 MICK’S QUICKS Gaelic-speaking accordionist and guitarist Calum Martin has just released his seventh album, Imrich (Leum Records LR005) in the 40 years since his original band, Island Express, recorded their debut in 1979. This lush album is dedicated to the…
Expand the Table of Contents to find the review you want DECEMBER 2018 ANDREW CADIE Half-witted, Merry & Mad Steeplejack Music SJCD022 http://www.andrewcadie.de/ Andrew Cadie is the fiddler, Northumbrian piper and University of Newcastle folk and traditional music honours graduate with Broom Bezzums, based in Weisenheim am Sand in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of South-Western Germany;…
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…