Tag Archives: English folk rock

Preacher Jethro Brimstone & The Watermelon Kid’s Baby Fishlips

Posted on 12th February 2022 by Cat Eldridge

Did you know that the Pogues were originally going to be called The Men They Couldn’t Hang? (And their very weird movie Straight to Hell suggested their idea of what the American West was really like!) Well, history was slightly … Continue reading →

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The Rails’ Cancel The Sun

Posted on 4th July 2019 by Gary Whitehouse

“Save the planet, kill yourself … it’s the least that you could do,” The Rails sing, slightly tongue in cheek, on one of the standout tracks on their third release Cancel The Sun. It’s a lovely folk-rocker with shimmering electric … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Just A Simple Soul

Posted on 24th October 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

Bert Jansch was one of the most iconic and influential folk musicians to come out of the U.K. in the 1960s. It’s shocking that it’s taken until now for the release of a career retrospective, but very welcome indeed is … Continue reading →

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The Rails’ Other People

Posted on 16th June 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

Other People is The Rails’ second album, but the first to be widely circulated and promoted in the U.S. It was released in the U.K. in October 2017 but is being released in the U.S. for the duo’s first stateside … Continue reading →

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Jack Cooper’s Sandgrown

Posted on 10th September 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

Jack Cooper’s two-man band Ultimate Painting has made three albums and is working on a fourth, but in the meantime he has released his first solo album. Sandgrown is a song cycle that paints a sonic picture of his hometown, … Continue reading →

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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, 10-12 August 2017

Posted on 4th September 2017 by Lars Nilsson

(Please note: For various reasons I will not mention all the groups that played this year.) There is some dispute about when the first Cropredy festival took place. The most common view is that it was the farewell concert Fairport … Continue reading →

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Richard Thompson’s Acoustic Classics Vol. II

Posted on 30th July 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

Richard Thompson follows up his popular Acoustic Classics release from 2014 with a second volume, aptly titled Acoustic Classics Vol. II. It’s a handpicked selection of some of his currently most popular songs from his solo acoustic performances, hitting all … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Living in the Shadows Part 2, On the Edge of a Dream

Posted on 8th July 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

This is the second installment of a massive archival re-release project of Scottish troubadour Bert Jansch’s latter-day studio recordings. This four-LP or -CD box collects Jansch’s three studio releases from the 2000s: Crimson Moon (2000), Edge of a Dream (2002) … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Living in the Shadows (Part 1)

Posted on 25th June 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

Bert Jansch, who died in 2011, was quite a prolific musician for quite a long time. I was a rather casual fan of his — well, actually I was an intense fan of one of his albums, and a casual … Continue reading →

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Bert Jansch’s Moonshine

Posted on 18th December 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

The year 1973 was not all that good a year for music, as far as I was concerned. There were a few bright lights, but mostly, the vibrant rock music of the late ’60s was morphing into bloated arena rock … Continue reading →

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