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Sunday 07 March 2010
Listen Now - 2010-03-07 |
Our mature-age guitar heroes' new albums are quite unlike each other's - or any other guitarist's. 40-plus years into his career Duck Baker issues a set of 'free' solos for nylon-stringed guitar, whilst Orchestrion finds Pat Metheny & his electric guitar in a room crammed with novel, robotic instruments.
Saturday 06 March 2010
Listen Now - 2010-03-06 |
Downtown Church begins with a Hank Williams song, ends with one attributed to St Francis of Assisi & includes a paint-peeling take on a thoroughly sceptical Lieber & Stoller number. Patty Griffin's gospel album is not much like any other, but is one of the most exciting, whatever your faith... or lack thereof.
Sunday 28 February 2010
Listen Now - 2010-02-28 |
In December 2004 an 18-year-old Scottish fiddler gained a discerning audience's 'pin-drop attention' & won BBC2's Young Folk Award. Five years later, Lauren MacColl's originals do not suffer in comparison to the ancient airs that she also plays exquisitely on Strewn with Ribbons.
Saturday 27 February 2010
Listen Now - 2010-02-27 |
Jazz's most celebrated 'emerging' artist is a US pianist whose parents are from India. The most highly-acclaimed 'piano trio' set in many moons, Vijay Iyer's Historicity is highly adventurous, eminently accessible, exciting, intelligent, eclectic.
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