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Fairport Convention - Festival Bell -

As quintessentially English as the gentle knock of a cricket ball on willow, it’s 43 years since Fairport Convention released their debut album. Their place in the cultural and physical landscape seems set to continue long into the future after their name was recently inscribed onto a new bell installed...

Lindisfarne - The Charisma Years 1970-1973 -

In their early 70s heyday Lindisfarne packed the punters into ballrooms and halls from Wallsend down to Watford. A ticket to see Newcastle’s biggest musical export since The Animals was a guaranteed knees-up with a complimentary sore throat after singing along to terrace anthems such as Clear White Light,...

Richard Thompson - Live at the BBC -

For long-term fans, this handsomely comprehensive box set boasting 58 (out of 61) songs presented on CD for the very first time, as well as a DVD’s worth of TV performances, represents an essential purchase. As such, it admirably doubles as a remarkably thorough and revealing primer for those encountering...

Trees - Freed Of This Flesh (2010) -

  Trees is a Portland band that gives their doom plenty of space within which to grow deeper and more greasy.  Both songs on "Freed of This Flesh" are heavy and grim, gradually shifting achingly between slow and slower.  Each fifteen minute plus drone becomes exhausting as you wait for...

Kate Rusby, Sweet Bells -

Was there ever a more appropriate voice for Christmas than Kate Rusby's? Soft as fresh fallen snow, pretty as a sparkling star and uplifting as a robin's song, as suited as it is to other seasons, her timbre naturally breathes with the magic of Yuletide.

It's something she proved back in...

Bert Jansch, L.A. Turnaround -

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