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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Woodland Album Review – Ten Exquisite Songs of Loss and Love
Named after their Nashville studio – hit by a tornado in 2020 – the duo’s first album together in 13 years picks its impeccable, old-time...

Paul Fitzgerald
Apr 154 min read
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Bill Frisell - Orchestras (Blue Note) Reviewed.
Guitarist Bill Frisell and composer/conductor/arranger Michael Gibbs have known each other for decades, contributing ideas and sounds...

Paul Fitzgerald
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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The Smile - "Cutouts" | Album Review
The Smile  consists of Thom Yorke  and Jonny Greenwood  of Radiohead and Tom Skinner  of Sons of Kemet, who disbanded in 2022. Their...

Paul Fitzgerald
Nov 2, 20243 min read
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Patrick Leonard releases an album of such beauty that you need to pay attention to it...
Patrick Leonard , is a world class producer, songwriter and musician who has just released an album of such beauty that it demands that...

Paul Fitzgerald
Aug 31, 20243 min read
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A Love Letter to John Martyn's Quiet Masterpiece "Solid Air"
By the early seventies, John Martyn had already begun to showcase his remarkable fusion of electronic and acoustic instrumentation,...

Paul Fitzgerald
Jun 15, 20246 min read
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Paul Weller's new album "66" is sublime
It is fascinating to think that Paul Weller has been a solo artist for 33 years; his time in The Jam and The Style Council that preceded...

Paul Fitzgerald
May 25, 20243 min read
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T Bone Burnett: Dystopia, Discovery and Dispatches from ‘The Other Side’
Inspired by new guitars, and with guest spots from Roseanne Cash and more, the US producer-musician contemplates love and mortality on...

Paul Fitzgerald
May 12, 20241 min read
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Emily Barker's beautiful new album "Fragile as Humans" turns her lyrical gaze inwards.
Influenced by her father's Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones and Sandy Denny record collection, Emily Barker is an Australian...

Paul Fitzgerald
May 4, 20244 min read
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Mark Knopfler Returns With Signature Mix of Celtic Folk, Rock and Blues on his new album "One Deep River".
It has been thirty three years since Dire Straits’ final album, and twenty eight after that band’s frontman/singer/songwriter and...

Paul Fitzgerald
Apr 26, 20243 min read
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The Self-Titled Debut of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis Serves as His Final Words
The late artist leaves behind a quiet and profound solo masterpiece Post-rock is not a genre that affords celebrity. The creators of such...

Paul Fitzgerald
Apr 7, 20243 min read
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"Speak To Me" - The Vivid and Wondrously Textured New Blue Note Album by Julian Lage
Guitarist and composer Julian Lage's gift has been apparent since he debuted as a bandleader in the late 2000s, and in the ensuing years...

Paul Fitzgerald
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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"Vagabond" - Dominic Miller's Stunning New Album
Born in Argentina to an American father and Irish mother, guitarist and composer Dominic Miller was raised in the U.S. from age 10 and...

Paul Fitzgerald
Feb 13, 20243 min read
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"Dream Box" - Monumental Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny's Beautiful 2023 Album
Monumental jazz guitarist Pat Metheny puts out a meditative album of intimate songs played solo on the electric guitar - six originals,...

Paul Fitzgerald
Feb 9, 20242 min read
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"The Abbott" - Clive Carroll plays the music of John Renbourn
Clive Carroll has created a sound world all his own, with influences mined from the delicate cadences of Elizabethan England, to the...

Paul Fitzgerald
Jan 20, 20243 min read
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