Colin Randall writes: our new Album of the Month feature is intended to highlight records that may be new but are as likely to be old. They just need to be special. My own collection, split between two countries, runs... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: There are some truly dreadful Christmas novelty songs, but some have a certain wit about them. I’m willing to stick my neck out here, and argue that I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas comes into this second... Read more →
Colin Randall writes; Some years have passed since I wrote about folk music for The Daily Telegraph. My role as the paper's folk bloke - "right column wrong newspper," to quote Ian Anderson, blues musician and founding editor of the... Read more →
l Colin Randall writes: Kate Rusby and family have announced tbat their Underneath the Stars festival has reached the end of the road. This year’s event, at Cinderhill Farm, Cawthorne, near Barnsley will be the last. i will have more... Read more →
July 2022 update; reposted because the clip of Kate Rusby's own singing of her charming song was leading to a dead end. It has now been replaced and is the last video shown in this article ... Choirs can work... Read more →
Jan 2022 update: a few months ago, I republished this item with mention of the Monday morning blues that had sent me to YouTube for one of my regular Kate Rusby fixes. I have been championing her music for around... Read more →
