by Kev Rowland | Sep 2, 2025 | Reviews
Mississippi John Hurt is another one of those musicians who was overlooked for much of his life, recording for Okeh in the Twenties and then going back to the farm. It was only after two of his songs were included in Harry Smith’s 1952 collection, ‘The Anthology of...
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by Kev Rowland | Sep 2, 2025 | Reviews
Here we have another classic blues album which has been remastered and issued on Craft Recordings/Concord, but I must confess Scrapper was new to me and I had to undertake some research. Apparently back in the 1920’s he was in a musical partnership with pianist Leroy...
by Kev Rowland | Sep 2, 2025 | Reviews
Zabocus are based around the songwriting duo of Ted Zahn (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and drum programming) and Steve Bonino (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards and drum programming), joined by Laura Green (vocals), Steve Anabale (trumpet), and Joe Canuel (electric...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 31, 2025 | Reviews
I sat down to write this review, and as always did some research and noticed that Blake used to be in The Minstrel’s Ghost. The cogs started to slowly crunch and I soon found a review I wrote of their final album, ‘Jack: A Different Tale’, back in 2019, and it is safe...
by Kev Rowland | Aug 31, 2025 | Reviews
When painter Penny Marrows was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer in March 2023, her son Billy Marrows began working on pieces for her. She heard some of these before she died, and afterwards he continued to write and then released an album in her memory, with one...
