Harvest of Highlights

  • 5th February 2024

    Sarah Jarosz – Runaway Train This is the third single release from the new Sarah Jarosz album ‘Polaroid Lovers’ on Rounder Records and it is yet another delight from the Jarosz strings headed straight for the Country radio stations in the US. Even though she is no longer a new face, it has to be… Read more

  • February 2024 Playlist

    I seem to have spent the month of January in the most stimulating song exchange with a close friend which has had the knock on effect of keeping me away from listening to anything new. Instead I have been delving back into my extensive lists of archived playlists and music libraries trying to pick out… Read more

  • January 2024 Playlist

    As readers of my accompanying piece for the December playlist are aware, I have no shortage of available archive / vintage music to explore in my daily life and often a new obsession can lead to months of ongoing discovery and musical joy. Many people my age seem to have suspended their listening habits around… Read more

  • Top Twenty Albums of 2023

    20) Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing A fine and captivating slice of cosmic Americana with added splashes of fuzz and crazy horse indebted wonder… 19) Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me Singer-songwriter fare with a style and range that harks back to the glorious seventies eloquence from the likes of Dory Previn and… Read more

  • December 2023 Playlist

    I first came across Blossom Dearie around fifteen years ago thanks to my dealings in the world of second hand vinyl. I had purchased a collection that heavily featured top drawer female vocalists, primarily from the sixties and seventies era. It is possible that I had noticed the name Blossom Dearie before that time, just… Read more

  • November 2023 Playlist

    My relationship with Phil Collins and his music is a contradictory one. His voice and his sound are part of the pop fabric of my earliest music memories, I would have been nine years old when my memory of him gurning in the video of ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ was sewn and as a fan… Read more