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Alela Diane - To be still

A few weeks back now, my brother gave me a copy of Alela Diane’s 2009 album To be still. He said to me, “Bru, if you like Karen Dalton, then you are going to love this.” I was excited, Karen Dalton is one of the greatest folk singers of all time and I Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:18 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Karen Dalton, Emmylou Harris, Alela Diane, Beth Orton

Liz Green: The blues singing Manc

So this friend of mine returned from London last weekend and as usual she brought back a whole bunch of really cool new CDs with her. So she spent a day playing me some really cool tunes by the likes of Man Man, Bonnie Prince Billy, No Age, Fuck Buttons Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:47 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Karen Dalton, The Pogues, Liz Green, Nina Simone

Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour

Cape Town’s Ella Joyce Buckley has turned South African folk music on its head with her debut album. Watching Ella Joyce Buckley perform her sweet, delicate songs is a window on to a naive, childlike, enchanted forest, a hybrid of CS Lewis’s The Chronicles Read More...

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 12:02 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Devendra Banhart, Karen Dalton, Righard Kapp, Ella Joyce Buckley, Joanna Newsome, Kate Bush, Vashti Bunyan

The complete guide to insufficiency

So this friend of mine arrives back from the UK and she comes over to share some of her new musical joys with me. I already know that she has a whole bunch of Smog records that I have never heard and a similar collection of early Daniel Johnston songs. Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:48 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Karen Dalton

Another hidden gem - Karen Dalton

I picked up the new Mojo magazine the other day, not only does it have a tribute to Pink Floyd's mercurial one album band leader, Syd Barret, but also a spread on the late eighties/ early nineties Dylan albums and his subsequent revival from what many Read More...

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 12:14 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments

Filed under: Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Nick Cave, Karen Dalton