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Flick the Dust Off | 26 December, 2025 Delta Lady – Joe Cocker (Joe Cocker) May Lady – Mountain (Nantucket Sleighride) All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding) Sisters of Mercy – Leonard Cohen (Songs of Leonard Cohen) I’ve Got a Feeling – Pentangle (Sweet Child) Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones (Let
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Jacqui McShee | The Great British Folk Festival | 04.12.11 Meeting up with Jacqui McShee for a little chinwag back in the winter of 2011 was certainly a box that needed to be ticked. I’d missed my chance to interview her Pentangle buddy (and ultimate guitar hero) Bert Jansch, though it has to be said,
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Bob Dylan | John Wesley Harding | CBS 63252 | 1967 Recorded between October and November 1967 and released just after Christmas in the same year, Dylan’s eighth studio album saw the Hibbing Bard return to his acoustic roots, with an album of new songs, presumably written during the Basement Tapes sessions. After recuperating from
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A selection of albums in the Jazz File collection
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SIERRA HULL AND JUSTIN MOSES | UPPER CHAPEL | SHEFFIELD | 27.01.23 Standing next to the four stone Ionic columns in front of the Upper Chapel Unitarian Church on Norfolk Street tonight, waiting for the sound checks to finish, I’m reminded of the days when I would wait by eight similar columns just a little
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In a change to the usual Live section, some of these features are pictures only. The Ciderhouse Rebellion and Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 14.01.22 Fiddler’s Elbow | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 28.01.22 Bar Stewards of Val Doonican | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 11.02.22 Yorkshire Folk Showcase
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Brooks Williams | Cast Theatre, Doncaster | 04.03.21 I’ve always considered it odd, if not nigh on impossible, to review a live gig if you’re not actually there, yet in these wildly extraordinary times, this is precisely the way it goes. Under normal circumstances, just prior to a show, there would be the mandatory swift
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Steve Tilston and Reg Meuross | CAST Theatre, Doncaster | 22.01.20 Three things spring to mind when sitting before such a pairing as Steve Tilston and Reg Meuross, two highly accomplished British singer songwriters; first admiration, followed by satisfaction and then chronic envy. I have great admiration for these two musicians, first and foremost for
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Frank Carline | Roots Music Club, Doncaster | 11.01.19 With the last scraps of turkey (or your own particular veggie option) well and truly disposed of and the multitude of tree pines almost completely swept up, together with those resolutions made and broken within minutes of one another, we step tentatively into the New Year
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Martin Hayes Quartet | Howard Assembly Room, Leeds | 27.01.18 It was with a spot of unfortunate programming that I first experienced the gentle music of Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, which happened shortly after the debut appearance of the Afro Celt Sound System at the Cambridge Folk Festival back in 1997. With ill foresight,
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