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Various – Highway Of Diamonds: Black America Sings Bob Dylan
Some compilation albums are speedily compiled cash ins, born out of a half-baked idea and fleshed out with track padding, often an attempt to capitalise on a current trend or hit and not designed to last beyond the marketing campaign that accompanies them. Then there are other compilations that are curated works of art put… Read more
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Fresh Juice 9th March 2026
Tiwayo – Up For Soul To get things going on the good foot this week how about a killer tune with some seriously sharp edged playing and a rough, lived in soul voice taking it out for delivery? This one is from Tiwayo’s latest album ‘Outsider’ which is set for release next month on the… Read more
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Clementine March – Powder Keg
You would not expect something ordinary from an artist who, when you are first introducing them, have to be prefaced with the words French British chanteuse, multi-instrumentalist, and composer before arriving at the name Clementine March. Furthermore, upon learning that the writing of this third long player was partly inspired whilst touring with the alt-folk… Read more
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Old Fruit 6th March 2026
The Nashville Teens – Tobacco Road This week, in tandem with the new Sixties Garage mix we released on Mixcloud (available to listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/dannyneill714/fruit-tree-records-sixties-garage-vol-1/ ), the Old Fruit feature is a selection of bands from the same era who all fall under the Garage umbrella. Not only that though, I have also made my… Read more
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The Magpie Arc – Gil Brenton
When progressive rock became a movement in the seventies it threatened, for a time, to get its claws into many different forms of music, possessing as it did a limitless potential now that other genre structures could be submerged by this new evolution. But it did not take too many years for Prog to become… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Sixties Garage Vol. 1
As far as this site is concerned, the world of record collecting and crate digging does not get more exciting and as frequently rewarding as it does when exploring the genre known as Garage Rock. Especially the original explosion heard in mid-1960s sounds rising out of the US, the UK and beyond. Much like Northern… Read more
