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Album review: CHARLOTTE SMITH & DAVID CLIFTON – The Tree in the Wood
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: MICHAEL MONROE – One Man Gang
Silver Lining Music [Release date 18.10.19] Vocalist Michael Monroe, once best known as the Hanoi Rocks frontman, has long since made his name fronting his own band, and the quality remains as high as ever. This new album is his … Continue reading
Album review: THEA HJELMELAND – Kulla
Proper Music [Release date 25.10.19] The third album by Thea Hjelmeland, KULLA, is the definition of artistic freedom. Hailing from Norway, Hjelmeland is a singer, writer and a multi-instrumentalist and demonstrates a genre-hopping confidence that suggests an artist completely at … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bjork, dreamy, Kate Bush, Kulla, pop, review, singer songwriter, Thea Hjelmeland
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Album review: NINE BELOW ZERO – Avalanche
Pete Feenstra chatted to Dennis Greaves for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in October 2019. Absolute [Release date 04.10.19] ‘Avalanche’ is the first self penned album by Nine Below Zero in big band mode and it’s a revelation. The pivotal … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Avalanche, big band, blues, Charlie Austen, Chris Rand, Chuck Leavell, Dennis Greaves, funk, Glenn Tilbrook, interview, Mark Feltham, Motown, Neil Young, NINE BELOW ZERO, review, rhythm & blues, Sonny Greaves, soul, The Isley Brothers
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Album review: VINNIE MOORE – Soul Shifter
Mind’s Eye Music [Release date 09.10.19] What does a still-relevant guitarist do when his main band says farewell? You keep releasing solo albums, that’s what. Vinnie Moore’s last solo outing was in 2015 – Aerial Visions – but in fairness … Continue reading
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Tagged album, funk, guitar, hard rock, instrumental, Jordan Rudess, metal, review, Rudy Sarzo, Soul Shifter, UFO, Vinnie Moore
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Album review: FLYING COLORS – Third Degree
Music Theories Recording/Mascot Label Group [Release date 04.10.19] The third album by the supergroup Flying Colors who feature Casey McPherson (lead vocals, guitar), Neal Morse (vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar), Mike Portnoy (drums, percussion, vocals), Deep Purple’s Steve Morse (lead guitar) … Continue reading
Album review: PHIL CAMPBELL – Old Lions Still Roar
Nuclear Blast [Release date 25.10.19] Since the end of Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee has found a home with the Scorpions and guitarist Phil Campbell has been forging ahead with his band the Bastard Sons. Now Campbell has decided to release … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Dee Snider, guitarist, Joe Satriani, metal, Motorhead, Old Lions Still Roar, Phil Campbell, review, Rob Halford, rock, Solo
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Album review: KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND – The Traveler
Provogue [Release date 31.05.19] While its tempting to portray Kenny Wayne Shepherd as the leading contemporary blues rocker of his generation, it would be wrong to forget that he fronts a road tested band that is 100 per cent the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Bob Seger, Chris Layton, Joe Walsh, Keith Richard, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Marshall Altman, Neil Young, Noah Hunt, review, rock, The Traveler
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Genesis Revisited: Band And Orchestra
This interview with Steve Hackett was broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on the eve of his UK orchestral tour. The hour special includes tracks from several albums included in the retrospective box set released in October 2018. Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bluray, Bradley Thachuk, Gary O'Toole, Genesis Revisited: Band And Orchestra, Heart Of England Philharmonic Orchestra, John Hackett, Jonas Reingold, Nad Sylvan, Progressive Rock, review, Rob Townsend, Roger King, Steve Hackett
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Album review: FOREST FIELD – Seasons
Rock Company [Release date 18.09.19] Forest Field are the brainchild of Peter Cox, who plays all the instruments, songwriting and production, with Phil Vincent on vocals and guitarist Vince O’Regan guests on two songs. ‘Seasons’ is a concept piece, based … Continue reading
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Tagged album, D'Ercole, Forest Field, interview, melodic, Peter Cox, Phil Vincent, prog rock, progressive, review, rock
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Album review: THE DARKNESS – Easter Is Cancelled
Cooking Vinyl [Release date 04.10.19] Album number six from the Darkness, with an album cover that will certainly cause some comment, although the band have always liked to push the boundaries. It also marks one of their heaviest albums overall, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Dan Hawkins, Justin Hawkins, melodic, Queen, review, rock, The Darkness
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Album review: BETH HART – War In My Mind
Provogue [Release date 27.09.19] The prodigious Beth Hart is back with more tales of self revelation. On the one hand she’s to be commended in as much as having reached a career peak, she’s unafraid to further delve into more … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ballads, beth Hart, paino, review, Rob Cavallo, singer, songwriter, vocals, War In My Mind
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Album review: DERECHO – Beneath A Stained Glass Sky
www.derecho.band [Release date 16.11.19] Oh dear, there’s always added pressure when a band sends a direct copy of their latest album for review. No one, not even seasoned GRTR! reviewers, wants to tell proud parents that their baby is never … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beneath A Stained Glass Sky, classic rock, Derecho, review, rock
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Quick plays: TONY McLOUGHLIN, KELLY STEWARD
TONY McLOUGHLIN True Native Fuego [Release date 15.11.19] Irish born singer -songwriter Tony McLoughlin’s seventh studio album picks up where his previous offering – The Contender (2013) – ‘a glorious Telecaster infused slab of Tom Petty / Springsteen inspired Americana’ … Continue reading
Quick plays: THIRD EYE BLIND, MICK DEVINE, KEYWEST
THIRD EYE BLIND Screamer [Release date 18.10.19] Album number six from Third Eye Blind and this reviewer enjoyed their last album, 2015’s ‘Dopamine’. Stephan Jenkins is back (in previous interviews he stated Third Eye Blind wouldn’t reach six albums) and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, folk, Hear Now, Keywest, Lonerider, melodic, melodic rock, Mick Devine, modern rock, pop rock, review, rock, Screamer, Seven, Stephan Jenkins, Third Eye Blind
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Album review: SASCHA PAETH’S MASTERS OF CEREMONY – Signs of Wings
Frontiers Music [Release date 13.09.19] UK audiences may not be too familiar with German-born Sascha Paeth but the multi-instrumentalist and producer has had a hand in many, many dozens of albums for an extensive roster of bands over the past … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AVANTASIA, Edguy, Epica, Frontiers, Master's of Ceremony, melodic metal, review, Sacha Paeth, Signs of Wings, symphonic metal
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Album review: THE DEFIANTS – Zokusho
Frontiers Records [Release Date 13.09.19] Boasting three quarters of the Paul Laine-fronted Danger Danger line up that plugged on through melodic rock’s wilderness years, the Defiants debut was one of the best albums of 2016, but I can’t remember making … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bruno Ravel, Danger Danger, melodic rock, Paul Laine, Rob Marcello, The Defiants
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Album review: POSSESSED – Revelations of Oblivion
Nuclear Blast Records [Release date 10.05.19] If you were told to imagine how a Possessed album would sound given the circumstances, no matter how vivid of imagination one may have, there is now way that this outcome could have been … Continue reading
Album review: XENTRIX – Bury The Pain
Listenable Records [Release date 07.06.19] To me, Xentrix has always been the leading UK thrash metal band back in the day. When it comes to having the whole package meaning musicianship, compositions, ferocity, melodic lines they came up on top … Continue reading
Album review: MIKE ZITO AND FRIENDS – Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry
Ruf Records [Release date 01.11.19] ‘Mike Zito And Friends – Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry’ is a pit stop, or a pause for breathe in a career that has brought him critical acclaim as both a musician … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, album, Ally Venable, Anders Osborne, Charlie Berry, Chuck Berry, Eric Gales, Joanna Connor, Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Kid Anderson, Kirk Fletcher, Mike Zito, Mike Zito And Friends, Nat King Cole, review, Robben Ford, Rock 'N' Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry, Tinsley Ellis, Tommy Castro, Walter Trout
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Quick plays: STEELEYE SPAN, GALLAGHER & LYLE, HUMBLE PIE
STEELEYE SPAN Live at De Montfort Hall Leicester 1977 Store For Music/Angel Air [Release date 04.10.19] One glaring error on this CD is the concert was in fact recorded in 1978 on the band’s then farewell tour (although the band … Continue reading
Album review: JAN AKKERMAN – Close Beauty
Music Theories Recordings/Mascot [Release date 25.10.19] Let’s be honest. Jan Akkerman hasn’t exactly been active in terms of album releases in the millennium. I also have to declare an interest having managed several UK tours for the guitarist in the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Close Beauty, Focus, fusion, guitar, guitarist, Jan Akkerman, jazz fusion, Jazz rock, review
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Album review: RISE – Strangers
Wise Queen Records [Release date 18.10.19] Strangers is the new album by Sussex based singer songwriter RISE – the artist formerly known as Talitha Rise (aka Jo Beth Young). The follow up to her 2018 debut An Abandoned Orchid House, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, progressive folk, review, Rise, singer, songwriter, Strangers, Talitha Rise
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Album review: SAYER & JOYCE – Makes You Stronger
Pete Feenstra chatted to Ron Sayer Jr. and Charlotte Joyce about the album ‘Makes You Stronger’. This interview was first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in November 2019. Gulf Coast Records [Release date 04.10.19] When Pete Feenstra reviewed … Continue reading
Album review: ELAINE SAMUELS & KINDRED SPIRIT BAND – Elemental
[Release date 02.11.19] Folk rock imbued with flute? It’s impossible not to make Tull/Anderson comparisons. Violin – Curved Air anyone? But Elaine Samuels and her Kindred Spirits (no relation Siobhan Maher’s all too short lived post River City People liaison … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Elaine Samuels, Elementral, folk, Kindred Spirit Band, prog, progressive folk, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: DAVID HASSELHOFF – Open Your Eyes
Cleopatra Records [Release date 29.09.19] David Hasselhoff, or the Hoff to his many fans, is no stranger to the recording studio having released his first album way back in 1985. He has always been big in Germany, indeed this album … Continue reading
