Apologies to Bill Taylor who knows why publication of this offering, suggested by me in self-flagellatory fashion several days ago, has been delayed. The reason, which I cannot go into here, persists and will do for days to come. This... Read more →
What a great Irish ballad Carrickfergus is. How strange then, that it cries out to be better still and, for all we know, once was. On the face of it, we have a gorgeous song with striking, mournful lyrics of... Read more →
Photo: Jez Lowe at Fylde Festival, 2010. With thanks for permissions already granted to folkimages.com Review: Crazy Pagan, by Jez Lowe (available at http://www.jezlowe.com/new-album/) Not to put too fine a point on it, I wanted to be Jimmy Montgomery. Who?... Read more →
It's the Jez Lowe mini-series. Today, another outing for the Salut! Live tradition of posing a set of quick-ask, quick-reply questions as a companion to the main interview. We heard from Jez at length at this link. Here, the questions... Read more →
Necessarily, and without apology, this mini-series of articles concerning Jez Lowe is dominated by the North East of England. That is where Jez is from and, but for the first few months of my life after my birth on the... Read more →
UPDATE: The main interview can now be seen at https://www.salutlive.com/2020/11/the-big-interview-jez-lowe.html Few artists, if any, capture the nuances, trials and tribulations of North-eastern life as incisively and thoughtfully as Jez Lowe. He writes about people and events far from that corner... Read more →
