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Category: Album/EP Reviews

Reviews that get the senses going in the glorious field of folk music!

Rachael McShane – “When All is Still” Album Review

30th October 201830th October 2018 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

Released 10 Aug 2018 Rachael Mcshane has trekked through the valleys of folk music theatre with her star turn as Susannah, a new mother fighting through hardship on a boat to Australia in “The Transports”,[…]

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Robert Lane – Only a Flight Away – Review

29th September 201829th September 2018 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

Released 27th April 2018 With “Only a Flight Away” there is a gear change from the “Country Lane” to the “Highway Lane”. Working and skillfully taking influences from all round this is an artist who[…]

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Gem Andrews – North- Album Review 2018

15th May 201815th May 2018 blueestaiAcoustic

An enticing mix of light and darkness tied together in a package of exploratory, urban Tyneside Country. BAND Gem Andrews: Vocals, Guitar Nicky Rushton: Piano, Accordion, Electric Guitar, Harmony Vocals Sarah Van Jellie: Double Bass,[…]

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Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – Personae (2018) Album Review

11th March 2018 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

“Sharp, witty and accomplished there is a class to Roberts & Lakeman’s new album that cannot be measured on any known scientific apparatus” Album: Personae Producer: Sean Lakeman Tracks: 10 Iscream Music Records (2018) Released[…]

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Peter Knight’s Gigspanner “The Wife of Urban Law” Review

10th March 2018 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

“An album that greets old friends with a warm handshake which has arrived with a zest for life and a sense of adventure”    Picking up Peter Knight’s Gigspanner’s “The Wife of Urban Law” you[…]

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Bella Gaffney- Heaven Knows – Album Review

8th January 20188th January 2018 blueestaiAcoustic

Album: Heaven Knows With:  Bella Gaffney (Vocals and guitars, concertina, and more)              Lauren Deakin Davies (Bass guitar, keys and percussion)              Nick Hall (Backing vocals and lead guitar)              Tim Spencer (Drums)              Chris[…]

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The Twisted Twenty (Debut Album) Review

8th December 2017 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

THE TWISTED TWENTY From: Penny Fiddle Records Tracks: 8 With: Holly Harman (baroque violin, vocals), Alexis Bennett (baroque violin, guitar, bodhran, electronics), James O’Toole, David Rabinovici (baroque violin), Ewan Macdonald (Cittern), Lucia Capellaro (baroque cello),[…]

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Kim Lowings and the Greenwood – Wild & Wicked Youth – A Review

29th October 201729th October 2017 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

FANCOURT MUSIC Album Release: 8 September 2017 I continue to wade through folk CD reviews as there are many. The next artist I would like to talk about is Kim Lowings and the Greenwood and[…]

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Oka Vanga -Dance of the Copper Trail – An Album Review

21st October 201721st October 2017 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

Hot on the heels of their previous entry “Tales from Eyam” the latest album from the acoustic duo, Oka Vanga, has arrived. In fact it arrived 31 March but let us not dwell on the[…]

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Elfin Bow – A Debut Album Review

8th June 20178th June 2017 blueestaiAlbum/EP Reviews

Elfin Bow – (Elfin Bow) Elfin Bow Music Recorded at: Hound Dog Studios, Liverpool www.elfinbow.co.uk Released 18th March 2017   Elfin Bow is very much the ringmaster in this positively creative and interesting debut that[…]

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