by Pete Sargeant | Apr 17, 2017 | Reviews
Nikka Costa Nothing Compares 2 U (Single) (Metropolis Recordings) Your writer has collected just about every record this fascinating and forceful singer has ever made, yet has never met Nikka Costa. In the strange world of music – or the spheres I move in, anyway...
by Pete Sargeant | Apr 17, 2017 | Reviews
Danny Bryant BIG Live In Europe (Jazzhaus Records) Our old friend Danny is realising a long-held ambition here, to present some of his tough blues music with an expanded musical lineup. The Bryant voice and guitar can take it, many years of road work have given him...
by Pete Sargeant | Apr 17, 2017 | Reviews
Catherine McGrath One EP (Warners) So there I am with lensman John Bull at the start of the Cadogan Hall-hosted Under The Apple Tree one-day festival of roots music in London. The first act is setting up to play with her accompanying guitarist.This is in the upper...
by Pete Sargeant | Apr 17, 2017 | Reviews
Marty Stuart Way Out West (Superlatone/HumpHead Records) Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives were one of the great highlight acts at the Country2Country Festival over here. Not only that but Marty had a Q&A at the showing of a documentary film about the...
by Pete Sargeant | Apr 16, 2017 | Reviews
Zara Larsson So Good (Sony Music) She’s a forthright young singer, a lot of people in the business want to work with her. The pop charts resound with her voice and now here is her album, produced by Ola Makansson. I suppose her natural competition in the music sales...
by Pete Sargeant | Apr 14, 2017 | Reviews
Doyle Bramhall II Rich Man (Concord) So far, every one of Mr Bramhall’s album releases have been full of fine songs, spirited singing, lively arrangements and in their best moments, stuttering smokestack-belching howling and spitting chunks of guitar-playing. The...
