Leon Russell with Mary Russell – The Paradise Years – Liner Notes
As much as I love the work of Leon Russell (and I do), I’m an even bigger fan of the unjustly overlooked singer/songwriter Mary McCreary, who became Mary Russell for…
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Review: Mick Ronson/Only After Dark
Although it came to a chaotic and financially ruinous end, the MainMan management company did produce some of the most interesting albums of the 1970s. I’ve long loved the two…
Lesley Duncan – Under The Radar
In the Christmas 2019 issue of Record Collector, I look into the life and work of singer/songwriter, the late Lesley Duncan, for the Under The Radar slot. I spoke to…
Maxayn Reloaded Liner Notes (2017)
A project I took great pleasure in helping to create in 2017 was a long overdue collection, anthologising in their entirety the three groundbreaking funk-rock albums of Maxayn, the group…
New Release! Polly Niles – Expanded Edition CD
Hot on the heels of the Rare Record Club vinyl release of Polly Niles’s lost Ember Records album, Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind, here comes the CD version. The…
New Release! Polly Niles – Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind
Some things deserve an exclamation mark. One of the most fascinating projects I’ve been lucky to be part of has been the excavation of a cancelled 1969/1970 album by a…
Bridget St John Interview
I first read about Wimbledon-raised Bridget St John at some point in the mid-1990s, when I was at Exeter University. The See For Miles label was reissuing some of her…
Lalomie Washburn Feature
With one exception, the Cherry Red/Robinsongs reissue of Lalomie Washburn’s wonderful 1977 album, My Music Is Hot, got tremendous reviews. And rightly so. It really is a sexy, ebullient album…
Rupert Holmes Interview
What a great pleasure it was to talk to singer/songwriter (and author, playwright, writer of musicals, novelist) Rupert Holmes for a wonderful project anthologising his entire CBS/Epic output (1974-1976), Songs That…
Maxayn – Shindig! Interview In Full
Originally published in Shindig! Issue 74, here’s my chat with Maxayn Lewis, whose wonderful group, Maxayn, were experimental pioneers who bequeathed the world a remarkable trilogy of albums in the…