Harvest of Highlights

  • Fresh Juice 23rd June 2025

    Bruce Springsteen – Repo Man If there is anyone doubtful that Bruce Springsteen deserves to be mentioned alongside the great writers of the Rock ‘n’ Roll era then this coming week might just press a few of the doubters into submission. He is about to release seven completed albums of previously unreleased, mostly unheard, material… Read more

  • Old Fruit 20th June 2025

    Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime For this week’s half dozen vintage music selections I just had to opt for a summer theme what with the heatwave that is currently bathing the UK in a hot, bright, sticky, perspiring glow. My opening jump back is a jazz standard taken from the Porgy & Bess… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 16th June 2025

    Ron Sexsmith – Don’t Lose Sight Canadian songwriter Ron continues to evolve and refine his craft with another new album called ‘Hangover Terrace’ set for release in August. His music can be as laid back and sleepy sounding as that weary expression he seems to perpetually wear on his face but that should not obscure… Read more

  • Old Fruit 13th June 2025

    Brian Wilson – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times How could this weeks vintage selection of tunes be anything other than a toast to those who are gone in 2025 following a handful of days when the world has lost the genius of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone? Brian may have shone brightest in… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 9th June 2025

    The Milk – I Need Your Love Top new retro soul tune taken from this now well established band’s fourth album ‘Borderlands’. The only thing that gets in the way of music that references another era is if the style outweighs the substance but if, as is very much the case here, the backbone is… Read more

  • Old Fruit 5th June 2025

    Pentangle – Travelling Song The favourite new album release at Fruit Tree Records this week is the Lavinia Blackwall ‘The Making’ record and so, in honour of its acid-folk splendour, here are another half dozen cherries of a similar ilk picked from that late 60s/early 70s period that Lavinia draws so much inspiration from. Top… Read more