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Album:Port Of Escape

Label:Chris Ricketts Music

Website: http://www.chrisrickettsmusic.com

This isn't out until the Autumn, but I really couldn't miss out this opportunity to make you aware of both album and artist. Chris Ricketts was a young tradition finalist back in 2009, he's recently been working across Europe playing at various shanty festivals, not only playing and singing traditional songs, but also working with a number of artists looking to make sure the tradition remains live and vital. Judging by his approach on "Port Of Escape", it appears he is about to do to shanty and fo'castle songs what Fairport Convention did to more landbased folk.

Album:Well Spun Lies

Website: http://www.gregharpermusic.com

I've always been impressed by the observational singer/songwriters that are as much storytellers as they are composers. To be able to compress the essence of a story, the emotion, the cause and effect into four and a half minutes takes a rare talent and one that Greg Harper seems to have in his soul. His songs have the feel of a south coast troubadour, but the themes reach well beyond that. "Well Spun Lies" has a slightly melancholic feel to it as Greg seems to imagine himself into dark places emotionally. His song from the perspective of a Battle Of Britain veteran sheer poetry

Girls Guns And Glory

Album:Sweet Nothings

Website: http://www.girlsgunsandglory.com/

Originally a recording project for lead singer/guitarist, Ward Haydn, Girls Guns And Glory, morphed into a real band with tour commitments and everything, as opposed to being studio based. The irony is the band have a formible reputation, but as "Sweet Nothings", the bands forth album shows, they ain't lost their touch in the studio. This hard edged country rock that has more than a nod towards electric blues. This is good ole boy music that can trace it's heritage back to the likes of Johhny Cash on one hand and Buddy Holly & The Crickets on the other.

Album:The Age Of Plenty

Website: http://www.steve-page.co.uk

You can feel the Texan influence on Bristol based country singer Steve Page. "The Age Of Plenty" feels a little hybrid and is very much the better for it. It's a country album in heart and soul, it's got an old time country feel that's more Austin than Nashville. It's got a drawl and instrumentation that places it on the blues edge of the genre, but the phrasing feels English as, to a degree, do the arrangements. It delivers an album that feels heavily influenced by the South and not one that's trying to be something it's not even if the mid-west it's name checking ain't Bath.

Water Tower Bucket Boys

EP:Where The Crow Don't Fly

Website: http://www.watertowerbucketboys.com

"Where The Crow Don't Fly" sees prolific bluegrass/old timey band, Water Tower Bucket Boys, join an increasing number of bands that have discovered that the typewriter is actually a pretty good percussion instrument. It adds a very organic sound into tyhe mix and the ear is drawn to the staccato rhythm in a way that it isn't to a drum and pulls you into the song as it already has a familiar warmth. This is not the most demanding ep you're going to hear, it trips and it skips as envokes flavours of a southern summer and revivalists meetings down at the creek.

Website: http://www.danafuchs.com

Playing Janis Joplin in the off broadway hit "Love Janis" inevitably lead to Dana Fuchs being proclaimed the heir to the legacy, thankfully she is too strong an artist to let that get to her, though she gives it a respectful nod. The truth is Fuchs was already carving her own reputation as a hard blues rocker before she accepted the part and she continued to appear alongside the likes of James Cotton and Taj Mahal, very much as her own person. "Love To Beg" is one solid, hard rocking album that's more than capable of getting deep down and dirty with the best of them.

Single:Do You Remember

Label:Balloon Ranger

Website: http://www.anebrun.com

I first came across Ane Brun via her second album, "A Temporary Dive" back in 2005. In total she has released eight albums, all of which have their own distinct sound, even though they have common DNA. "Do You Remember" is the first single from the forthcoming album, "It All Starts With One". If the job of a single and I guess video is to raise anticipation for the album, this one should have you on tenterhooks. There's a sense of her native Scandinavia in the rhythm which allows her vocals to really soar, bringing out an avant-garde masterpiece and wets the appetite.

Album:Ballads And Songs From The Appalachians

Website: http://www.fellside.com

Much kudos to Fellside both the timing and quality of the "Ballads And Songs From The Appalachians" release. This two cd double pack with extensive sleeve notes brings focus back on a real bluegrass/mountain music original in this vintage year. Directly or indirectly she has been such an influence of fans of the genre, from both sexes though in all fairness she had a bigger imapct on her own sex because she showed them what was possible. Her songs came from and about her family as well as further afield. She was hugely passionate about causes and being counted.

Album:Baby Baby Baby

Website: http://glassrocklife.com/

"Baby Baby Baby" is New York alt.rockers Glass Rock's second album. It takes the essence of it's precessor and distills it into iceberg tipped seascapes where acoustic guitars, drums and vocals provide the real mass behind the electric guitar that's allowed to break through the surface. Think This Mortal Coil if they had been fortunate enough to be introduced to Skeletal family. This is the sort of album you can lock yourself away in as there is so much to be pulled out of the layers. A vocal that suggests hard hooch and honey and then there's still the lyrics to decypher.

Album:Bramble Briars And Beams Of The Sun

Website: http://www.fellside.com

From your first glance at the sleeve, you know this 2cd celebration of one of England's finest singers of ballads and balladry is going to be something special and you are not going to be disappointed. The extensive and well researched sleeve notes don't only do justice to Lloyd, but also to everyone of the thirty three songs that sit on this compilation. Even without the notes you only have to listen to a few songs to realise that these songs come from times when hardship and violence were often the norm. Values and justice imposed unfairly from above and a need to get one over them.

Website: http://www.lindiortega.com

There was a bit of a buzz around Lindi Ortega at this years SXSW and having heard the debut single, "Little Lie" from her forthcoming album, "Little Red Boots", it's easy to understand why. She's honed her craft playing with and backing the likes of Brandon Flowers and now it's time for the alt.country firebrand to cut out on on her own. Rhythms plucked out on a stand up bass povide a perfect counterfoil for her twang vocal that adds a level of innocence around a lie understated as little. There's a folk tinge that you can hear at the edge of the country, bodes well for the album.

Simon Stanley Ward

Album:Myself To Blame

Website: http://reverbnation.com/simonstanleyward

The opening track of "My Self To Blame", "American Voice" probably tells you all you need to know about Simon Stanley Ward. Firstly that he's a singer/songwriter who really does understand irony and sarcasam and secondly he's a man with te talent to pull it off. The song is essentially about Europeans that sing with an American drawl, but done in such a way as to illicate sympathy rather than a novelty tag. The rest of the songs on this six track mini album are a bit more serious and delivered with a consumate performance and a real nod to our transatlantic cousins.