Harvest of Highlights

  • October 2022 Playlist

    My big musical event in September was going to the End Of The Road festival, my first time there despite for years seeing the line-up and feeling that this was the festival most in alignment with my tastes. So, I went there with the intention of just bathing in four days of music and happily… Read more

  • Night Beats – Outlaw R&B

    Jump back five years and the Night Beats were one of the bands offering up authentic rough edged Garage Rock infused with roadrunner Rhythm & Blues. The bands 2016 album, their third LP release, ‘Who Sold My Generation’ was one of the standout records of that year and, after catching them on their UK tour,… Read more

  • September 2022 Playlist

    Sadly, the music world seems to have people passing away all too frequently nowadays, something to do with the age range of that golden sixties generation I suppose, that generation whose music shaped everything that has evolved ever since and therefore, for the most part, has remained timeless. But then there are also, all too… Read more

  • Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days

    Including an album like this in the Fruit Tree Records albums of the year feature is a little like picking a year from the sixties and praising a Beatles album as one of the best. It is rather stating the obvious with ‘In These Silent Days’ too because the acclaim showered upon it at the… Read more

  • La Luz – La Luz

    The sound of an eternal sunset, that great ball of fire slowly descending behind a baron mountainous landscape at the end of a winding, empty, open road. That is how I feel about the lush, aching sound made by the band La Luz, a sound that they seemed to refine and fully realize on this,… Read more

  • Billy Bragg – The Million Things That Never Happened

    Billy Bragg arrived in the 1980s a fully realized, self contained, left-wing, protest singing iconic beast. He knew how to grab the attention with that thick Essex accent and his, almost sixties-like throwback topical songs of current social and political issues, were delivered in the unpolished manner of a man who had lived through and… Read more