Searching for the Old Folk Rebels

Unsung heroes of the UK folk scene from the late 1950s to the 1980s (plus more contemporary roots acts)

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

'One' - John Chisholm's powerful understatement

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‘One’ by Lost Moons is a set of clever melodic songs with a deceptively serious lyrical message. Initial listening could lead to this being...
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Saturday, 5 December 2020

Johnie Winch: Retracing his Roots

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John Winch has been playing ‘roots’ music – folk, blues, country, bluegrass, Cajun and skiffle - for six decades. For the last two (as thr...
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Friday, 28 August 2020

Schitzoid Joe: Lost No More

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That journal of 'Swinging London', the  International Times,  has published my profile of the lost classic album,  'Schitzoid Jo...
Friday, 15 May 2020

'The Road Less Travelled' - a new EP by Tom Cole

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Tom Cole ’s ‘The Road Less Travelled’ is a showcase of some his newest self-penned material plus reworkings of a couple of songs that have...
Saturday, 21 December 2019

Ian Dobson: a folk voice for half a century

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by Neil Partrick Ian Dobson has been a folk music performer, gig organiser and sound engineer for more than half a century. While for muc...
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Saturday, 6 July 2019

Tom Cole live at The King's Head in Battle

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I have raved about this singer-songwriter before and will no doubt do so again.  Tom Cole  recently played to a mostly disinterested bunch ...
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Monday, 24 September 2018

Alan King: Hardship Lane in Hastings

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I’ve never had a guitar lesson in my life, said Alan King, as he spent two hours musically extrapolating on western and Indian music and t...
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