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September 2009

Jeff & Vida – Selma Chalk (Rosebank Records)

This is going to be one of those dreadful reviews that possibly says more about me than the band. I Just Don’t Like It but am trying, trying, trying to be fair throughout as I am sure this is mostly due to my taste rather than their efforts.

The promo material with the CD opens with [...]

Stephen Fearing – The Man Who Married Music (True North)

They used to release Best Of…albums at the end of careers. Now they do it in the middle. Such is the case with The Man Who Married Music, a hand-picked collection from Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing.

Best Of albums can sometimes feel like contractual obligations – the nail in the coffin of the five-record deal [...]

Ballad Of Britain arrives on CD

The Ballad Of Britain is finally available on CD.

A 21-track limited-edition CD and unlimited download of Will Hodgkinson’s field recordings is being released on 28 September on Heron Recordings.

From spring to autumn last year, Hodgkinson (author of Song Man and Guitar Man) travelled through Britain in a battered old Volvo with a portable [...]

Mumford & Sons announce limited-edition, tour-only album

Mumford & Sons have announced details of a special limited edition version of their forthcoming debut album, which is being made available exclusively to fans on their current UK tour.

Sigh No More is released through Gentlemen Of The Road/Island Records on 5 October, but fans will be able to buy the limited-edition copy in a [...]

Dancing Alone – William Hawkins (True North)

So I’ve got this idea for a movie script. It’s about this guy. His friends call him The Hawk. Or Big. Or Billy. Something like that. He’s this crazy coffee shop owner in Ottawa in the sixties and he has big dreams of being a poet and a musician. Bands play there and he loves [...]

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