Category: Reviews
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Folk Music in 2020: Things I’ve Loved in a Mad, Mad Year
Folk music in 2020 may have been battered by the devastating effects of the COVID pandemic, but there were great things to be heard, and fascinating changes to the traditional landscape, that will prove well-worth holding onto. Here are a few thoughts on folk music in 2020, as viewed from the same couch I appear…
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Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band – Big Machine (album review)
There’s a sense among reviewers of Big Machine, Eliza Carthy’s new album on Topic Records, that this collection marks the artist’s coming of age moment. I’m not sure how she must feel about that herself. I imagine she’s lost count of the number of times people have said that of her latest albums over the…