Janet Murray didn’t throw her knickers on stage

It would take a brave reviewer to slate Dougie Maclean. I knew this the minute I walked into the auditorium at Perth Concert Hall for the Caledonia Concert, the finale of the Perthshire Amber Festival.

With a career spanning more 25 years, singer-songwriter Dougie (as he is [...]

We don’t usually review CDs that have been kicking about for a while and we don’t usually review completely unknown artists but it’s our site and, well, we’ll do what we like, thanks. A couple of weeks ago at the Perthshire Amber Festival, folkingool was sitting in a bar having an innocent whisky or [...]

Benjamin Taylor probably thinks this review’s about him. It will be, of course but, first, the obligatory reference.

Unlike, say, Martha Wainwright, Taylor has yet to emerge as a voice distinct from those of his 1970s singer-songwriter parents – in his case Carly (You’re So Vain) Simon and James Taylor.

Now, where I hung [...]

Folkingcool fave and – latterly – Nashville darling Pete Molinari is returning from the States for a series of December UK dates.

Molinari has been in Nashville recording the follow-up album to A Virtual Landslide. While in the States he also hooked up with the legendary Jordanaires – the results of which are on the wonderful EP [...]

Ian Wylie expected more

It’s not Jack Rose’s fault that a lofty reputation travels before him when he tours.

But finger-picking fans drawn to the Sage Gateshead tonight by Rose’s avant garde, Eastern-tinged acoustic guitar experiments, the drone music of his influential noise band Pelt or his inspired interpretations of John Fahey, Robbie Basho and [...]