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Album review: BEYOND THE BLACK – Break The Silence
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Album review: MIDNITE CITY- Bite The Bullet
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Quick plays: MIKKO JOENSUU, ODDITY, VINNIE MOORE
MIKKO JOENSUU Amen 1 An ambitious musical adventure here from Mikko Joensuu as this album is the first part of a planned trilogy of albums. This is a very sparse album, in that Mikko’s vocals are the main focus backed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, Amen 1, Americana, country, folk, guitarist, Hidden City, metal, Mikko Joensuu, Oddity, Press Hard, Reds' Cool, review, rock, Settle Down, SPV, The Cult, Vinnie Moore
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Album review: JOE LOUIS WALKER – Everybody Wants A Piece
On Sunday 12 June 2016 at 20:00 GMT Pete Feenstra chats to Joe Louis Walker on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and plays tracks from the new album More information Provogue [Release date 09.10.15] If bluesman Joe Louis Walker career … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Danny Kirwan, Frank Sinatra, funk, guitar, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Winter, Marty Balin, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Paul Nelson, Ramsey Lewis, review, rock, soul, Taj Mahal, The Boss Talkers, The Spiritual Corinthians
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Album review: SUNSTORM- Edge Of Tomorrow
Frontiers [Release date 03.06.10] Sunstorm have never been a band as such, but the name given to a Frontiers Records studio project which is now four albums strong over a decade, the one common link being Joe Lynn Turner’s evergreen … Continue reading
Album review: TED POLEY- Beyond The Fade
Frontiers [Release date 13.05.16] A matter of weeks after some erstwhile bandmates produced one of the albums of the year with the Defiants, Danger Danger singer Ted Poley responds with his own latest solo album. A solo album is usually … Continue reading
Album review: WALTER TROUT – ALIVE in Amsterdam
This hour-long interview special was first broadcast on Sunday 10 July on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in the Pete Feenstra Feature, with tracks from the new album. Provogue [Release date 17.05.16] There’s nothing quite like experiencing Walter Trout live, … Continue reading
Album review: RAY WILSON – Song For A Friend
Jaggy D Records [Release date 03.06.16] What a beauty of an album this is! Stiltskin frontman and ex-Genesis lead singer, Ray Wilson’s fifth solo album, “Song For A Friend” oozes quality and empathy – epitomizing heart-felt balladry throughout. Lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Genesis, Ray Wilson, review, singer, Song For A Friend, songwriter, Stiltskin
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Album review: BEN CRAVEN – Last Chance To Hear
Tuneleak Records [Release date: 29.03.16] Ben Craven is an Australian multi-instrumentalist – self-described as a ‘cinematic progressive rock singer-songwriter’. ‘Last Chance To Hear’ is his third studio album to date following ‘Two False Idols’ in 2005 and 2011’s ‘Great … Continue reading
Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – Folklore
www.bigbigtrain.com [Release date 27.05.16] Big Big Train return with their first full studio album since 2013, last year’s EP ‘Wassail’ was a nice stop gap and the title track is on this album. Also since their last album they have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Big Big Train, Dave Gregory, folk, Folklore, pastoral, prog, progressive, review, rock, XTC
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Quick plays: MICHAEL McDERMOTT, ANNIE KEATING, MISS RABBIT
MICHAEL McDERMOTT Willow Springs Having only just reviewed The Westies – Six On The Out, a vehicle for singer songwriter Michael McDermott, it was something of a surprise to find his 10th solo album land a matter of only weeks … Continue reading
Album review: JON KENZIE – From Wanderlust
Membran [Release date 01.07.16] Way back in 2009 I reviewed the eponymous debut by Beggar Joe a promising Manchester quintet that fell into the blues jazz genre, tempered by a side salad of rock and soul. A ‘late night/early hours’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beggar Joe, blues, From Wanderlust, Jon Kenzie, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter
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Album review: WILD PONIES – Radiant
No Evil Records [Release date 10.06.16] Essentially a Nashville-based duo of Doug (guitars and vocals) and Telisha (bass and vocals) Williams, Radiant is Wild Ponies sophomore release, coming on the back of their well-received Ray Kennedy-produced debut Things That Used … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Americana, Doug Williams, folk, Radiant, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Telisha Williams, Wild Ponies
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Album review: JAKE MORLEY – The Manual
Sandwich Emporium [Release date 10.06.16] You sense London based acoustic singer/songwriter Jake Morley tolerates the music industry, and all the hype that goes with it, rather than embraces it. His 2011 debut Many Fish To Fry found favour with Radio … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Jake Morley, review, rock, singer, songwriter, The Manual
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Album review: CAIN RISING – s/t
That’ll Do Records [Release date out now] With a name like Southside Jimmy and the mix of country, folk and rock that borrows heavily on the likes of Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan that permeate this eponymous debut, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Cain Rising, review, rock, roots
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Album review: VOLBEAT – Seal The Deal And Let’s Boogie
Spinefarm Records [Release date 03.06.16] Volbeat’s meteoric rise shows no signs of abating any time soon. With the changes in line up, the latest being the addition of bassist Kasper Boye Larsen who replaced the departed Anders Kjolholm, it would … Continue reading
Album review: DEFTONES – Gore
Reprise Records [Release date 08.04.16] Deftones are a band who have never really caught my attention. The angst ridden vocals of Chino Merino coupled with the band’s usual soft, explode on chorus, then soft again is not too bad in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice In Chains, Chino Merino, Deftones, Gore, Jerry Cantrell, metal, Reprise records, review, rock
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Album review: DOUG ABRAHAM – Better Late Than…
BBM [Release date 27.10.15] Doug Abraham is a fine Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and confident guitarist who has a solid background in instrumental music and funk rock, though this album goes well beyond those genres. The title of the album ‘Better Late … Continue reading
Album review: MORELAND & ARBUCKLE – Promised Land Or Bust
Alligator [Release date 20.05.16] Moreland & Arbuckle are here to remind us that Heartland rock isn’t necessarily country music by another name. ‘Promised Land Or Bust’ their 7th album refines their signature roots-rock sound, built on memorable riffs, alternated soulful … Continue reading
Quick plays: PAPERNUT CAMBRIDGE, SULFUR CITY, KING MUD
PAPERNUT CAMBRIDGE Love The Things Your Lover Loves An album full of trippy, bubblegum pop – these types of bands were ubiquitous in the ‘70s, think early Small Faces with Steve Mariott-type, easy-on-the-ears ditties (though not his pipes) but you … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Barismanco, blues, King Mud, Papernut Cambridge, pop rock, Quick Play, reviews, rock, Sulfur City, the Blues Against Youth
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Album review: JORN – Heavy Rock Radio
Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Release date 03.06.16] Jorn is back with…another covers album. In the past few years he has been doing various re-recordings of his older work or covers, plus last years rather good ‘Dracula – The Swing Of Death’ with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic, Covers, Frontiers, Heavy Rock Radio, John Farnham, Jorn, Journey, Kate Bush, melodic, Queen, review, rock, Trond Holter
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Album review: CHRIS ALLARD – Invisible Landscape
Perdido [Release date 10.06.16] Chris Allard probably won’t thank me for saddling him with the jazz fusion tag, but he’s a subtle guitarist who evokes the likes of John Schofield and Lee Ritenour over 10 tracks full of inspired interplay, … Continue reading
Album review: GENE THE WEREWOLF – The Loner
[Release date 17.06.16] Fellow GRTR! reviewer Nikk Gunns loved Gene The Werewolf’s last album, ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal’, which was released at the end of 2012 on Frontiers. Like that album, this new one – their third to date – … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Gene The Werewolf, hard rock, review, rock, rock 'n' roll, Steel Panther, the Loner
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Album review: SLUDGEHAMMER – The Fallen Sun
[Release date 10.06.16] The major issue I have with some of the heavier music still remains the vocals. Sometimes I’ll press play and have my mind blown by some amazing music only to have my ears blown by bad vocals. … Continue reading
Album review: CONDITION RED – Illusion Of Truth
Lion Music [Release date 20.05.16] Lars Eric Mattson is a brilliant guitarist that not very many people outside music fans that dig a little deeper into guitar based music will easily recognize. It’s a shame too because everything I have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Condition Red, guitar, guitarist, Illusion of Truth, Lars Eric Mattson, metal, progressive, review, rock
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Album review: GANDALF’S FIST – The Clockwork Fable
www.gandalfsfist.com [Release date 01.05.16] I enjoyed Gandalf’s Fist’s last album ‘A Forest Of Fey’, and they have really upped their game all round on this one. First, a mention about the packaging. Not only do we get a sumptuous triple … Continue reading
Album review: RICH ROBINSON – Reissues
Eagle Rock [Release date 22.02.16] With the Black Crowes looking to be all but consigned to musical history, Rich Robinson – founder, guitarist and writer of the music that made the band such a creative force – is now re-issuing … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Paper, reissue, review, Rich Robinson, rock, The Black Crowes, Through A Crooked Sun, Woodstock Sessions
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