The Sweet Sugar of Reality
Live review of Sixto Rodriguez in Manchester
folk rock
Dylan Lives Up to His Legend
Bob Dylan live in Brooklyn
A Discreet Perfection
Review of NIa Morgan's new album
Theft As Ownership
Review of Jake Holmes' Dangerous Times
Postcards in the Fall
Review of Marsha Malamet's Coney Island Winter
A Slow Decline to Lasting Silence
Danny Kirwan: Second Chapter (Warner, UK)
When Danny Kirwan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, he was absent from the proceedings in New York. In terms of his contribution to popular music, this is a near-perfect act of symbolism. He was living a mundane routine of homelessness, a regular at a hostel for alcoholics in Soho (London), his semi-permanent address since his life had taken a downwards turn at the end of the Seventies.
A Later Limelight
Review of Vashti Bunyan's Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
The Haunting Hour
Rob Cochrane reviews debut of Sharon Lewis