NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Joe Jammer: Life Will Be – A Song For Ukraine (SINGSONG179
Ballads despairing war don’t go down well with Chicagoan Joe Wright, dubbed ‘Joe the Jammer’ by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant when he worked with them in Led Zeppelin.
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Mo Foster – Live At Blues West 14 (SINGSONG177)
‘Live At Blues West 14’ is Mo Foster’s fourth solo album. Foster reflects: “Musicians tend to loosen up in a club setting: away from the pressures of the studio or the concert platform they feel generally more relaxed, new ideas are tried, and they feel free to re-interpret old favourites.”
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Doc Thomas Group – The Italian Job (SINGSONG181)
The progenitor of one of rock’s best known bands, formed in the UK with Mick Ralphs and David Tedstone on guitars, Stan Tippins on vocals, Dale Griffin on drums and Pete Watts on bass, the Doc Thomas Group toured Italy, recording this tight and buzzing R’n’B set for local label Dischi Interrecord in January 1967.
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Mo Foster – Time To Think (SINGSONG176)
In 1999, bass supremo Mo Foster was to follow up his critically- acclaimed studio releases ‘Bel Assis’ and ‘Southern Reunion’ with this more experimental and improvisational set.
NEWS: “There is no other band like us” … Lindisfarne’s Clements interviewed on The Strange Brew
Rod Clements of Lindisfarne speaks to Jason Barnard about their imminent Magic In The Air UK tour, the new 'Radio Times – Live At The BBC 1971-1990' box set and Lindisfarne’s enduring appeal.
NEW AUDIO RELEASE – Mo Foster – Southern Reunion (SINGSONG175)
Two years after the release of his solo debut ‘Bel Assis’, ‘Southern Reunion’ comprises a second collection of instrumental observations and ideas by one of Britain’s finest bassists.
NEWS: Lindisfarne BBC sessions released in 8CD box
One of the UK’s most successful folk-rock bands of the 70s, Lindisfarne is celebrated this April (2023) with the release of Radio Times - Live At The BBC 1971-1990, the definitive take on the band’s time at the Corporation constituting over eight hours of recordings over 8 discs.
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Mo Foster – Bel Assis (SINGSONG174)
Recorded between October 1987 and January 1988 with an enviable line-up of music talent, ‘Bel Assis’ is bassist supremo Mo Foster’s first solo album.
NEWS: Lindisfarne 2023 MAGIC IN THE AIR UK tour…
Folk rockers Lindisfarne continue their 2023 Magic In The Air UK tour with more dates this autumn.
NEWS: Neil Ardley biography coming out this March 2023 ….
The late Neil Ardley was one of the leading lights in the creatively fecund period enjoyed by British jazz music during the 1960s and '7os and her biography of the man by his partner Vivien Ardley is a very welcome addition to the libraries around the lives of the talent he nurtured and co-opted into his many projects, notably the sublime New Jazz Orchestra.