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Sam Lee & Friends - Lord Gregory - The Fade In Time - Nest
Collective www.thenestcollective.co.uk/1994/08/sam-lee
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Pretty Polly
- Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Rounder
Records www.belafleck.com/
Bella Hardy - Good Man's Wife - Battle Plan - Noe
Records www.bellahardy.com
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Flow - Returning To The Sea
- Uilleand Music www.facebook.com/timoconnor.hull
Colin Hay - Next Year People - Next Year People - Compass Records www.colinhay.com
Kate Campbell - Montgomery To Mobile - 1000 Pound Machine - Large River
Music www.katecampbell.com
Sam Lee & Friends - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses - The Fade In Time -
Nest Collective www.thenestcollective.co.uk/1994/08/sam-lee
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Ride To You -
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Rounder Records www.belafleck.com
Bella Hardy - Sleeping Beauty - Battle Plan - Noe
Records www.bellahardy.com
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Original Mystery -
Returning To The Sea - Uilleand Music www.facebook.com/timoconnor.hull
Colin Hay - Waiting In The Rain - Next Year People - Compass Records
www.colinhay.com
Kate Campbell - Alabama Department Of Corrections Meditation Blues - 1000 Pound Machine - Large River
Music
www.katecampbell.com
Sam Lee - "London Folk artist Sam Lee returns with ‘The Fade
In Time’, a follow up to 2012’s Ground Of Its Own – which
was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Sam takes a 21st Century view on
Folk traditions from the UK and around the world – re-imagining the
British folk tradition through the eyes of the wider world. The music takes
a path from Gypsy Traveller songs, through
Japanese court music to wedding marches from Tajikistan – a truly
global journey, with English folk song at its heart. Sam’s 5 piece
band recorded the album with Arthur Jeffes (of
Penguin Cafe Orchestra) and Jamie Orchard-Lisle." - Proper Music
Distribution website
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - "This
is not Dueling Banjos: The Married Couple Edition. You won't find the
careening energy of the mano-a-mano from the Deliverance soundtrack, or of the Flatt
and Scruggs classic "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Outbreaks of
dazzling, speed-demon technique are few. Instead, the first duo recording
from Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn — husband-and-wife banjo adventurers with divergent areas of
specialty — is notable for its understated, welcoming calm.
Across 11 short, carefully arranged slivers of Americana, Fleck and
Washburn explore roots music using the tones and coloration options that
arise when two banjos join in conversation. Sometimes the focus is on basic
timekeeping, via the intricate arpeggios and latticework rhythm patterns
associated with scores of banjo classics. Sometimes the two seek out
moodier realms, among them the unique, entrancing drones common in rural
blues." - www.NPR.org
Bella Hardy - "Leaving aside her recent acclaimed ‘side
projects’ on the folkloric balladry of her beloved Peak District and
the yuletide compendium Bright Morning Star, Bella’s fourth release
displays an artist confident with her Muse widening the range of
soundscapes used to present her carefully crafted song material. Resident
mainly in Edinburgh now, her band selection of excellent Scottish
accompanists, The Midnight Watch, are Anna Massie (guitar/banjo), Angus
Lyon (keyboards/accordion), James Lindsay (bass) and producer Mattie Foulds (drums). Their collective arrangements cleverly
befit and chart the dynamic and moods of the several song pieces. The
combination of new songs with adaptations of traditional material reflects
Bella’s academic approach to the songbook sources. She often abstracts
from several variant versions and story strands to produce her own more
modern, often complex, amalgam. Usually some part of her life experience
and empathetic sense of the perspective of the female protagonists is sewn
into this new contemporary take on both the lyrics and tunes. This is a
highly successful method refreshingly re-presenting, say, classic gypsy
ballads (Good Man’s Wife), the downfall of the
‘unfortunate’ syphilitic lass (True Hearted Girl), the serial
murderer ‘outlandish’ knight’s comeuppance being bedded
alone in the ‘deep briny blue’ (The Seventh Girl) and the
paling and fading decay resulting from ‘flash company’ (Yellow
Handkerchief). Dramatisation is provided by
sophisticated musical scenery that, although recognisably
and primarily folk, touches on rock (Three Pieces Of My Heart rather sounds
like Judie Tzuke’s recent output) with some
jazz, French café, etc. Always, however, centre-stage,
clearly sitting atop the instrumentation, is that pure voice, passionately
conveying the spectrum of emotions and moods of songs where grief,
loneliness and darkness are customarily prevalent. With her usual disarming
honesty, Bella explains that her ‘battleplan’
lists somehow ‘never go to plan’. That surely matters little
when the outcome is as winning and winsome as this latest excellent piece
of work." - Kevin T. Ward Living Tradition magazine
Tim O'Connor & The Ant Farm Collective - Hull UK- based cooperative
bringing the well crafted and tuneful
compositions of singer/songwriter Tim O'Connor to life, comprising Tim
O'Connor - Voice, Guitars & Keys, Pete McLeod - Percussion, Simon Strauli - Bass Guitar & Acoustic Guitar, Trish Silvester - Voice, Dicky Deagan - Uilleann Pipes,
Whistle.
Colin Hay - singularly and mellifluously voiced Australian singer-songwriter
who catapulted to worldwide fame as the voice and composer behind Men At
Work...
"12th studio album and his first album after almost four years. The
album features 12 songs that are an eclectic mix of both humorous and
open-hearted tones. Colin is backed by San Miguel Perez and Yosmel Montejo, both recent Cuban transplants, in
addition to Larry Goldings on piano, Jeff Babko on B3, and Colin’s wife, Cecilia Noel, as a
vocalist." Artist's website
Kate Campbell - the splendid musical documenter of the lives and times
down here in the sunny South... making a most welcomed return visit to
Little Rock Folk Club on Sat Feb 28th 2015
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