Category: Acoustic
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The Lucky Ones: The Lucky Ones
The Lucky Ones sound like they come from Kentucky or some other Appalachian area, playing what is musically straight bluegrass / roots string music, but they’re actually from the Yukon, Canada, made famous by the Klondike Gold Rush and more latterly by Ice Road Truckers. (We once went to the Motown Museum in Detroit, where […]
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Ben Bedford: Portraits
This is Bedford’s sixth album; his last, Hermit’s Spyglass, was excellent and this is even better. Perhaps not surprising, as he has picked songs from his first three albums to create a collection of songs, the intention’s clear from the album title. Hermit’s Spyglass told some good tales – it mapped daily life on a […]
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Georgie: At Home
We like Georgie in the Review Corner. With that name and her appearance, she could be one of those X Factor clones (that type of voice, that mild RnB) but she’s not. She can really sing, needs no Auto-tunes and her rich, soulful voice is at home singing pop, jazz or blues. If you like […]
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At Home, baroque, Blue Waters, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chasing Kites [Explicit], Chronicle Series, Classical, Company, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, Georgie, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Me and You Only, music, Now We're Lonely, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Rules We Broke, Simple Things, soul, Unrequited Love -
Michael Bernard Fitzgerald: Love Valley
This is Fitzgerald’s fifth album but we’ve not heard of him before; he’s a Canadian singer-songwriter so he’s been honing his craft over there. It’s a nice little album, in the best senses of “nice” and “little”: it’s a cosy musical companion that will bring comfort to fans of Americana and folky roots in these […]
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And, Back On The Farm, baroque, Best We Haven't Seen Yet, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Famous, funk, good new music, Good Plates, Harley Davidson, Heart Of It, I Love That Sound, I Love You, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Love Valley, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, music, Nothing On, Our River, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, The Altar -
Tim Fredericks: Singer Songwriter 2
This is a follow-up to an album that came out last year; they gave away the last one and we guess the same is true of this. It came out before lockdown, so now they can’t even give it away. The songs are by Tim Fredericks and his band, who are from Crewe, Macclesfield, Stoke […]
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Damien Jurado: What’s New, Tomboy?
This is the 15th studio album from singer songwriter Jurado, and it’s a more solid musical offering than we were expecting. It’s still a fairly stripped-back sound, but it just seems a little more forceful, although we guess Jurado fans buy his albums for the lyrics. All the songs are about relationships and many of […]
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Alice Hyatt, Arthur Aware, baroque, Birds Tricked into the Trees, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Damien Jurado, early, Fool Maria, Francine, Frankie, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, Ochoa, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sandra, soul, The End of the Road, Tomboy?, What’s New, When You Were Few -
Ben Avison: Lovers’ Leap
Avison has a gentle voice and writes gentle tunes, which means there’s a danger his songs could be merely bland. We receive albums that are so unutterably dull that we can think of nothing to say about them (good or bad) but this is not one. Although on a couple of occasions he does veer […]
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Non Canon: Non Canon II
I don’t known much for sure but can say with utter certainty that Non Canon (aka Barry Dolan) has the most rabid fans in the country; either that or a large family. I reviewed his first album under this name, the imaginatively entitled Non Canon (sans I), and said that while I could see that […]
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A Teapot And An Open Mind, And Another Thing…, baroque, Barry Dolan, Bink Bonk, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Dark Force Rising, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Mmxix, music, Never Say Never Again, Non Canon, Non Canon II, Old Blacksmiths Studios, OneCat, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Self Untitled, Sharpie, soul, The Cavalier Years, The Sayings Of The Seers -
Andrew Hawkey: Long Story Short
We liked Hawkey before we heard a note: he was born in 1942 (yes, really) in Wadebridge, Cornwall, a favourite Review Corner haunt (and home to Andrew Ridgeley) and also lived in Cheshire. He left school at 15 to work on poultry farms, but became an estate agent. He was in London for the swinging […]
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Sam Lewis: Solo
Lewis is a grizzled looking American dude and sings the songs you might expect; modern life and its many facets, just him and guitar. He’s good because he has a soft voice, lyrics that can be thoughtful, amusing or silly, and makes honest, simple music. This is just him and an audience in what sounds […]
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3/4 Time, a, baroque, Blues, Bluesday Night, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Everything’s Going to Be Different, funk, I Love You, I’m a River, I’m Coming Home, In My Dreams, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, Neighbors [Explicit], Never Again, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Runaway Bride, Sam Lewis, Solo, soul, Southern Greek Tragedy, Talk About It, The Light, The Only One, Things Will Never Be the Same, Virginia Avenue, Waiting on You, What Does It Mean, When Come the Morning
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