Like grandfather, like granddaughter, Colin Randall writes. Maya cannot have been more than seven or eight when I introduced her to a remarkable singer-songwriter who was born Jeanne Louise Galice but chose Jain, from the Indian religion, as her professional... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: in my review of a listen-as-you're-massaged single featuring Julie Fowlis and Ewen Henderson, from a forthcoming album on which they also appear, there was passing reference to the Irish singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, formerly of Danu, these... Read more →
What an extraordinarily multi-talented woman Julie Fowlis is, says Colin Randall. A striking new recording bears witness to her quality. Seventeen years have passed since, in my role as The Daily Telegraph's writer of folk music, I first reviewed an... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: We noticed a while back that the guitarist and singer Wizz Jones had celebrated his 85th birthday this year, and we mentioned it on our Facebook group. But we realised that we’d never written about him properly... Read more →
Sept 12 2024 update: Colin Randall names Oysterband as his Artists of the Week at the Salut! Live Facebook group ...
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When Bill Taylor compared very different versions of Dirty Old Town - the song about Salford that Ewan MacColl wrote for a play in 1949 - in our Cover Story series, there was lively if modest interest. Bill's piece first... Read more →
