All Blog Posts Tagged 'Tom' (13)

Nashvilles resident land lockedPirate Tom Mason is doing my first solo tour of the Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. For the first half he'll be joined by  Irish singer-songwriter-guitarist Tony McLoughlin, and he plans to pess gang…

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FTB podcast #172 features the new album by KELLER WILLIAMS WITH THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS called Pick. Also new music from TOM HOUSE, THE DEADFIELDS and a track from Even More Songs About Route 66. Here's the…

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Tom Fairnie is an Edinburgh-based poet/singer/songwriter with a rich background of performance and recorded collaborations with other poets and musicians. There are a couple of previous “solo” recordings but these two new discs demonstrate that the man is an inate collaborator – there must…

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FTB podcast #156 features the new album by JULIE LEE called Julie Lee & the Baby-Daddies. Also new music from RECKLESS KELLY, ANAIS MITCHELL and CUFF THE DUKE. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe to the…

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Tom Billington is a active member of the House Concert Hub and an old friend, I was a huge fan of his old band Mohair who he fronted and were tilted at the music industy Mills and criticaly touted for great things, I can votch they were a very exciting…

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FTB podcast #151 features the new album by DARRELL SCOTT entitled Long Ride Home. Also new music from JACKSTRAW, AMELIA WHITE and CORNFLOWER BLUE. Here's the…

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Tom Russell

Gateshead Old Town Hall

January 20th 2012

Alan Harrison

     It doesn’t seem 5 minutes since Tom Russell was playing the exact same venue to about 100 people and tonight was a complete sell-out which bode well for Roots music in the North East.

      With no support…

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Tom Russell 

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• Wed 11th Jan Bristol The Thunderbolt ( …

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What a wonderful, fun-loving project this is. Originally out…

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Tom McRae has released four albums since 2000. His eponymous debut was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, as well as Q Award and A Brit. The Follow up, "Just Like Blood" was similarly critically well received. For "All Maps Welcome" Tom relocated to L.A and made a record in an Italian Villa in the hills of Silverlake. It was whilst living in L.A Tom started playing the Hotel Cafe venue in Hollywood. The Artists of the… Continue

I’m thinking of starting a sub series of blogs: “Glorious artists in incongruous settings”. Until Tuesday night Steve Earle in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester ( more suited to Manchester ‘s Symphony orchestra ) would have been high up that list, possibly top, closely followed by Chatham County Line playing at St Bede’s in Chorley, which looks to be a typical working men’s club, and more suited to - well, anyone who might play a WMC. But last Tuesday I saw Tom Russell, in Fleetwood and Hesketh… Continue

It's the top ten end of the decade, time to reminisce about some great times seeing musicians play in the Highlands. It's been a great time for me, re-discovering gig going after all the years when a young family meant other things took priority. My only regret is that I don't have the time and money to see more. Still, scarcity value counts for a lot. Anyway, here's my completely arbitrary list of favourite gigs in the last ten years (or so):



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Tom Mason Actor and musician (or musician and actor), seems like an all-round good guy, living life to the full and keen for us to have some fun with him. He is one very fine guitar player and has got a cohort of familiar Nashville names to help out here - Jen Gunderman, Dave Jacques and Mark Horn of The Derailers amongst them. A joyful melange of American sounds from the modern country of I Surrender (as in, I could imagine Mary… Continue