NICK STEED 5 Feeling For The Blues

Album Review for NICK STEED 5  – Feeling For The Blues Released Independently What we have here is a thoroughly professional outing, featuring strong musicianship from all concerned – but which lacks the kind of spark necessary to really grab you by the ears. Partly this is down to the vocals of main man and […]

NEIL WARDEN Adventures in Weissenborn Land

This is a mini adventure, exploring the sound of Weissenborn lap steel guitar, four perfectly formed tracks, written and recorded whilst Neil Warden was recovering from a broken leg. Opening with the acoustic tones which take us to a dry and eerie place. Windswept, desolate and wild, the power of the Weissenborn combined with Gary […]

NOBODY’S BUSINESS Home Grown

NOBODY’S BUSINESS Home Grown. Independent. Nobody’s Business is the name taken by Danny Ward and Colin Elliott, and these two Bristol boys have produced an album of simplistic beauty that is easy on the ears and a real musical treat with superb guitar finger-picking and original self-penned lyrics. The opening track the curiously named, Rabbit […]

NELSON WRIGHT Orphans & Relics / PEACHES AND CRIME Do Bad Things

NELSON WRIGHT Orphans & Relics / PEACHES AND CRIME Do Bad Things Fetching Grace Music / Peaches and Crime Records Two albums allocated for review, with nothing, at first sight, in common, except that they are a stretch to review in a Blues magazine, not being too closely attached to the Blues canon. Yet after […]