Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Folk albums with Steve Jonson: January 16, 2025
New releases from Thorpe and Morrison, Daria Kulesh, and Will Finn and Rosie Calvert
SJ albums
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Thorpe and Morrison
Grass & Granite
(Self-Released)
★★★★
ANGLO-SCOTTISH duo Harry Thorpe and Sean Morrison met in Birmingham and have produced two previous albums.
This latest offering with guest musicians like Alex Garden and Michelle Holloway takes their combination of guitar and fiddle-playing to new depths, encompassing traditional tunes with elements of Scandinavian music and Americana.
Exploring themes of longing for home while undertaking new ventures the opening track Big Skies and Water Meadows relates to Thorpe’s upbringing in Suffolk.
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