Click the icon above to see pre-January 2017 CD Reviews Expand the Table of Contents (below) to find the review you want MAY 2018 THE SALTS Brave Braccan Records BRCD9001 No doubt about it – this scintillating band just grabs the unsuspecting audience by the scruff of the neck and delivers a shed-full of great gutsy…
Expand the Table of Contents to find the review you want DECEMBER 2017 PAUL HAYES The Old Crooked Hat [use=3] (Independently released – no catalogue number) www.paulhayesfolk.co.uk Folk singer and songwriter Paul was brought up in the town of Middleton, just north of Manchester. He emigrated to West Wales, where he’s now living in the…
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…