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Beth Hart Front and Center: Live from New York – The first question I asked can a live album capture the mystery, and emotional intensity of Beth Hart singing from a stage to you? Yes, it does this is Beth live in your living room. A live album that captures more than the moment it has distilled through your personal speakers the emotion and power of Beth Hart ruling the song and stage.
Self-titled Benjamin Bassford Acoustic Album Delights. This album surely also is a new dawn in the musical journey of a young man with a bucket load of talent. Playing slide and fingerpicking on acoustic and resonator guitars giving a depth and variation of tones and textures. When you need time out, time to sit and think, time to contemplate or reflect this album is the perfect accompaniment.
Richard Townend, for the uninitiated, was a professional musician graduating from Leeds College of Music in 1986 where he studied guitar and composition. After graduating, he toured throughout the UK with the likes of Ronnie Corbett, Charlie Drake, Les Denis, Dana, The Platters and Tony Christie. He became, perhaps unsurprisingly disillusioned with the professional music scene until, a few … Read more…
Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs New Album Pills Out in June It’s the anthology style that makes this album such an engaging proposition, the twists and turns always find you revealing something new, hidden beneath the surface. Pills will be released on 15th June 2018 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group.
I’ve always felt an affinity with Janiva Magness. We were born in the same year after all, although she still looks stunning whereas I have succumbed to the ravages of a very hard paper round. (A clue; in the year of our birth, the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched). Her previous work has … Read more…
The Tunnels Welcoming The Ladies of The Blues Three blues diva’s sing their hearts as Kyla Brox, Connie Lush & Erja Lyytinen take turns to take centre stage – with a finale that took our breath away we were very satisfied by the Blues played tonight
Walk With Me New Album from Ruby & The Revelators Having sat back and listened this is an album about life the glittering and the grime, personal highs and lows we can relate to the songs with Ruby on Walk With Me, we have walked those streets as well. Life’s experiences once again the fuel for a sassy album.
Michael Landau may not yet be a household name but you can guarantee that every household in the western world has played host to his guitar playing. Along with Dan Huff and Steve Lukather, Landau was responsible for virtually every Los Angeles recorded mega-hit from a guitar point of view in the 80’s and 90’s. … Read more…
Gold Top New Album Delivered By The Milk Men superb follow up to Debut album Full Phat. There may be no reworking of the recipe of British blues but then when something isn’t broke why change it. The Milk Men know that and play the style they love and will always be a welcomed by fans.
What can be said about a legend like John Mayall? His history has been exhaustively covered and yet, for me, most articles have been a constant source of annoyance in that nearly all of them have concentrated on his recruiting and then losing stars of the future. Yes, of course, this has been important, and … Read more…
