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Folk music reviews by Shelley Rainey
2018
Review
Breabach
Frenzy of the Meeting
Review
Jim Causley
Special Commissions EP
Review
James Patrick Gavin
Chewing the Fat
Review
Bryony Griffith
Hover
Review
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage
Awake
Review
David Milton
Songs from the Bell Man
Review
Kelly Oliver
Botany Bay
Review
Owl Light Trio
Owl Light
Review
Will Pound
Through the Seasons: A Year in Morris and Folk Dance
Review
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Personae
Review
The Transports
A Tale of Exile and Migration
2017
Review
Paul Anderson
The High Summit
Review
Johnny Campbell
Avalon
Review
Jim Causley
I am the Song
Review
Luke Daniels
Making Waves
Review
Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra
D’rect from the Shire
Review
Amy Henderson
Soul for a Compass
Review
Isembard’s Wheel
Common Ground
Review
Jigfoot
Kindling
Review
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
Big Band Live
Review
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
The Wife of Urban Law
Review
Tom Moore & Archie Churchill-Moss
Laguna
Review
Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin
Shortwinger
Review
Purcell’s Polyphonic Party
An Invitation to Dance
Review
The Routes Quartet
Windrose
Review
Greg Russell
Inclined to Be Red
Review
Sharon Shannon
Sacred Earth
Review
Various Artists
Shake the Chains
Review
Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll
The Songs of Edward Capern
2016
Review
Afro Celt Sound System
The Source
Review
Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton
Symbiosis
Review
Jim Causley
Forgotten Kingdom
Review
The Coach House Company
Maiden Tales
Review
Daoiri Farrell
True Born Irishman
Review
The Furrow Collective
Wild Hog
Review
The Gloaming
2
Review
The Lion’s Share
The Lion’s Share
Review
Megson
Good Times Will Come Again
Review
Poitín
Simple Pleasures
Review
Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston
The Watchmaker’s Wife
Review
Trail West
Rescattermastered
2015
Review
Barluath
At Dawn of Day
Review
Jim Boyes
Sensations of a Wound - The Long, Long Trail of Robert Riby Boyes
Review
Molly Evans
Molly Evans
Review
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Conflict Tourism
Review
John Jones
Never Stop Moving
Review
Tom Kitching
Interloper
Review
Paul Meehan
The Lower Road
Review
Moirai
Sideways
Review
Moirai
Sideways
Review
Moirai
Sideways
Review
Moore Moss Rutter
II
Review
Pagoda Project
Clarion
Review
Peatbog Faeries
Blackhouse
Review
Chris Quinn
Across the Divide
Review
Root & Branch
Overground
Review
The Roving Crows
Up Heaval
Review
Hannah Sanders
Charms Against Sorrow
Review
Seriouskitchen
The Whispering Road
Review
Storywheel
I Crossed the Sea
Review
Steve Tilston
Truth to Tell
Review
Various Artists
Joy of Living - A Tribute to Ewan MacColl
2014
Review
The Albion Christmas Band
One for the Road
Review
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
Let the Wind Blow High or Low
Review
Si Barron
Sweet Billy Caution
Review
Tom Blackburn
Tell-Tale
Review
Brasy
Live
Review
Bright Season
Bright Season
Review
The Campbells of Greepe
No. 2 Greepe
Review
Cara Dillon
A Thousand Hearts
Review
The Dovetail Trio
The Dovetail Trio
Review
Firepit Collective
To the Lost
Review
Martin Green
Crows’ Bones
Review
Harp & A Monkey
All Life is Here
Review
Fiona Hunter
Fiona Hunter
Review
Isembard’s Wheel
Autumn in Eden
Review
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
Layers of Ages
Review
Ben Miller
On Home Ground
Review
National Youth Folklore Troupe Of England
NYFTE
Review
The Old Swan Band
FORTYssimo
Review
Sam Sweeney
Made in the Great War
Review
Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll
A Handful of Sky
2013
Review
Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson
Air-Fix
Review
Isobel Anderson & Ruby Colley
The Sussex Sessions
Review
Andrews Massey Duo
Make Merry
Review
The Bad Shepherds
Mud, Blood & Beer
Review
Jim Causley
Cyprus Well
Review
Andy Clarke & Steve Tyler
Wreck off Scilly
Review
Paul Downes
The Boatman’s Cure
Review
Joy Dunlop
Faileasan (Reflections)
Review
Tim Edey
Sailing Over the 7th String
Review
The Fallows
Liars & Kings
Review
The Foxglove Trio
Like Diamond Glances
Review
Gadarene
Volume One: 1694-2011
Review
David Gibb & Elly Lucas
Up Through the Woods
Review
Fabian Holland
Fabian Holland
Review
Ashley Hutchings
By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down & Wept
Review
Levellers
The Recruiting Sergeant
Review
Thomas Lukassek
A Day in Full Dress
Review
Jonathan Milton
Just One More
Review
Elliott Morris
Shadows & Whispers
Review
NUA
Bold
Review
Jackie Oates
Lullabies
Review
Said The Maiden
Come Hither
Review
Laura-Beth Salter
Breathe
Review
Heidi Talbot
Angels Without Wings
Review
Three Sheets T’Wind
Break from Tradition
Review
The Two Sisters
Songs & Chansons
Review
Various Artists
Way to Blue - The Songs of Nick Drake
Review
The Willows
Beneath Our Humble Soil
Review
The Willows
Bella
2012
Review
The Albion Band
The Vice Of The People
Review
Jess & Richard Arrowsmith
Customs & Exercise
Review
Linda Bandelier, David Campbell & Friends
Ae Fond Kiss
Review
Sylvain Barou
Sylvain Barou
Review
Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing
The 13th Bedroom
Review
David Gibb & Elly Lucas
Old Chairs To Mend
Review
Haddo
Homecoming
Review
The Hut People
Picnic
Review
Lau
Race The Loser
Review
Anna Macdonald
Paper Flowers
Review
Kathleen Macinnes
Cill Bhrìde
Review
Macmaster/Hay
Hook
Review
Mawkin
Crow
Review
Ewan McLennan
The Last Bird To Sing
Review
Sarah McQuaid
The Plum Tree & the Rose
Review
Jim Molyneux
Journey Boy
Review
Maz O’Connor
Upon A Stranger Shore
Review
Alistair Ogilvy
Leaves Sae Green
Review
The Owl Service
Garland Sessions
Review
Matt Quinn
Broom Abundance
Review
The Roving Crows
Bacchanalia
Review
Session A9
Session A9
Review
The Shee
Murmurations
Review
Sproatly Smith
The Minstrel’s Grave
Review
George Stevens
A Toad In The Hand
Review
Richard Trethewey
Dig Where You Stand
Review
The Young’uns
When Our Grandfathers Said No
2011
Review
Paul Armfield
Tennyson
Review
Bellowhead
Hedonism Live
Review
Kirsty Bromley
Sweet Nightingale
Review
Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
The Gift Band - Live On Tour
Review
The Crooked Fiddle Band
Overgrown Tales
Review
The Doomed Bird of Providence
Will Ever Pray
Review
Dyer:Cumming’s
Dyer:Cummings
Review
Anna Elias & The Forlorn Hope
Valleys In The Flatlands
Review
Julie Fowlis
Live At Perthshire Amber
Review
Fribo
Happ
Review
Bella Hardy
Songs Lost & Stolen
Review
Harp & A Monkey
Harp & A Monkey
Review
Padraig Lalor
Ismay’s Dream
Review
Lazik
Far Fetched
Review
Moore Moss Rutter
Moore Moss Rutter
Review
Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers
File Under Fiction
Review
The Old Swan Band
Swan For The Money
Review
The Scarlet Jacks
The Scarlet Jacks EP
Review
George Stevens
3 Tunes
2010
Review
4Square
Chronicles
Review
Christi Andropolis
Rust & Holler
Review
The Burns Unit
Side Show
Review
Gavin Davenport
Brief Lives
Review
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Up From The Deep
Review
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
Twice Reflected Sun
Review
Lúnasa
Lá Nua
Review
Mabon
Live At The Grand Pavilion
Review
Loreena Mckennitt
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Review
Lizzie Nunnery
Company Of Ghosts
Review
The Shee
Decadence
Review
Various Artists
Folk Against Fascism - Volume One
Review
The Young’uns
Man, I Feel Like A Young ’un
2009
Review
Fidil
Fidil 3
Review
Hérétique
Hérétique
2006
Review
Jon Boden
Painted Lady
1971
Review
Steeleye Span
Please to See the King
Review
Steeleye Span
Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again
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