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Folk music reviews by Darren Johnson
2020
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Rakoczy
Frontrunner
2019
Review
The Tweed Project
The Tweed Project
2018
Review
Band of Burns
Live From The Union Chapel
Review
Daimh
The Rough Bounds
Review
Gareth Davies-Jones
The Darkest Midnight in December
Review
False Lights
Harmonograph
Review
Gerry O’Connor
Last Night’s Joy
Review
Eddi Reader
Cavalier
Review
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
Utopia and Wasteland
2017
Review
Thom Ashworth
Hollow
Review
Molly Evans
Deep Time & Narrow Space
Review
Fairport Convention
Come All Ye - The First Ten Years
Review
Green Matthews
A Christmas Carol - A Folk Opera
Review
MacQuarrie & Toms
Granite
Review
Merry Hell
Come On England!
Review
Pilgrims’ Way
Stand and Deliver
Review
Ross Couper & Tom Oakes
Fiddle & Guitar
Review
Ryan Young
Ryan Young
2016
Review
The Changing Room
The Magic of Christmas
Review
Sandy Denny
I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn - The Acoustic Sandy Denny
Review
Ange Hardy
The Quantock Carol
Review
Ray Hearne
Umpteen
Review
Ashley Hutchings
From Psychedelia to Sonnets
Review
The Longest Johns
Written in Salt
Review
Ewan McLennan & George Monbiot
Breaking the Spell of Loneliness
Review
Hamish Napier
The River
Review
NUA
Flow
Review
The Paul McKenna Band
Paths That Wind
Review
Kaela Rowan
The Fruited Thorn
Review
Top Floor Taivers
A Delicate Game
Review
Two’s Company
Go Together
2015
Review
Gren Bartley
Magnificent Creatures
Review
Kirsty Bromley
Time Ashore
Review
Eleven Magpies
Eleven Magpies
Review
Marie Fielding
An Seisiun
Review
Hector Gilchrist
Days ’o Grace
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Gráinne Holland
Gaelré
Review
Ashley Hutchings
Twangin’ ’n’ a-Traddin’ Revisited
Review
Elle Osborne
It’s Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice
Review
The Outside Track
Light Up The Dark
2014
Review
Jon Budworth
Trees Turn to Fire
Review
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour
Review
Barbara Dickson & Rab Noakes
Reunited
Review
Green Diesel
Wayfarers All
Review
Ange Hardy
The Little Holly Tree
Review
Chris Jones
Dacw’r Tannau
Review
Richard Thompson
Acoustic Classics
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Songs For The Voiceless
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