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Krista Detor Interview

An Interview with Krista Detor

by Mike Wilson 24 March 2011 Features

Mike Wilson talks to Indiana-based singer-songwriter, Krista Detor who returns to Europe this April, playing throughout the month in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Krista also shares some exclusive demo tracks with Folk Radio UK

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T. G. Elias

T. G. Elias – ‘The Man In The Iron Cage’

by Mike Wilson 15 May 2010 Reviews

You’re unlikely to be familiar with the name T. G. Elias. At present, Elias seems to spend his time travelling between small, select venues who provide valuable opportunities for underground musicians to take their first tentative steps, and reveal their wares to an audience full of expectation and preconception.

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Joy Dunlop – A Powerful Marriage of Beautiful Tunes and Emotive Language

by Mike Wilson 17 March 2010 Reviews

Joy Dunlop emerges from the Gaelic culture in which she has been immersed throughout her life to present her debut album, Dùsgadh (Awakening). Born and bred in the Argyll village of Connel, and educated at the Scottish Gaelic College, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Joy boasts an understanding of the Gaelic language and culture that is both [...]

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Kris Drever – Mark The Hard Earth

by Mike Wilson 9 March 2010 Reviews

Kris Drever is doubtlessly one of the most appealing singers of his generation working the current folk scene. He approaches each song in such a laid-back manner, without sacrificing a scrap of intensity or subtlety. With a distinct talent for interpretation of song that manges to be both robust and sympathetic, Drever’s delivery is unassumingly [...]

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Krista Detor – Chocolate Paper Suites

by Mike Wilson 4 March 2010 Reviews

Krista Detor is one of those slow-burning artists, who quietly turns out albums brimming with classy and engaging songs, portraying a view of life that is sometimes wry, and always thoughtful. Listeners fall at her feet following their first encounter, and whole audiences find themselves quickly under Krista’s spell, eating out of the palm of [...]

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Bellevue Rendezvous – Salamander

by Mike Wilson 15 February 2010 Reviews

The artwork for Salamander greets you with a vibrant warmth: a glowing and alluring amalgam of reds and oranges that is both classy and intense. It is therefore the perfect visual embodiment of the aural splendour that awaits the listener, for the music presented on Salamander is all of these things… and so much more.

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Inge Thomson – Shipwrecks & Static

by Mike Wilson 17 January 2010 Reviews

Shipwrecks & Static is the début solo album from Inge Thomson, who is likely to be familiar to many as part of the creative force behind Scottish four-piece Harem Scarem, and familiar to many more as part of Karine Polwart’s band, where her musical resourcefulness and incomparably beautiful

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Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan – Adoon Winding Nith

by Mike Wilson 5 January 2010 Reviews

Released to coincide with the celebrations in 2009 of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, Emily and Jamie offer a collection of songs that shine with utmost clarity. At the root of this is almost certainly Emily’s flawlessly beautiful voice, and coupled with

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