Review: The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear Birthday Cake Records (December 11th 2025) Reviewer – Mark Jackson Canadian Juno award winning roots rockers The Bros. Landreth have delivered a fine album with their latest release ‘Dog Ear‘. The brothers’ musical ship is moored firmly in the late 1960’s and 1970’s Americana sea, but charts it’s […]
Review: Eric Gales – Tribute To LJK Provogue Records (October 24th, 2025) Reviewer – Mark Jackson Eric ‘Raw dawg’ Gales has long been a Blues rock favourite of mine, as a fellow guitarist turned me onto his music years back. On this album, a tribute to his late brother Little Jimmy King, he takes a […]
Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd OVO Arena, Wembley ( July 19th, 2025) Reviewer- Mark Jackson My introduction to Skynyrd was in 1982. At the age of15 at a Rock Disco, while headbanging furiously, ‘Freebird‘ came on. I was blown away by the guitars, got my first Skynyrd album, and never looked back. They’ve been a big chunk […]
Review: Bryan Adams – Live At The Royal Albert Hall BMG (Friday 8th December, 2023) Reviewer: Mark Jackson I first saw Bryan Adams on the Reckless Tour 1985,which I went to with a good ‘ol rock n’roll gal who really dug him!…a kickass gig and great songs so I have great respect for the Man […]
Review: Southern Uprising “Down at the Barn” Shottle, Derbyshire (September 23rd, 2023) Reviewer / Photographer: Dan Mann This was my first chance to sample the annual Southern Uprising festival, and what a fantastic time I had. With a well laid out site, reasonably priced drink, food and merch, a great looking stage set up, plenty […]
Review: Paul Rodgers – Midnight Rose Sun Records (September 22nd 2023) Reviewer: Mark Jackson I’ve been lucky enough to meet the great Mr Rodgers back in the 1990’s..My band Medicine Hat were recording in Nomis Studios in London. One day we turned up for work and we heard a beautiful sound coming from a nearby […]
Review: Laurence Jones – Bad Luck & The Blues Marshall Records (August 25th 2023) Reviewer: Mark Jackson Laurence Jones is a Liverpool born UK based guitarist/vocalist with 4 British blues awards and a list of cool support slots! (Walter Trout and Royal Southern Brotherhood to name a couple) as well as a headliner in his […]
Review: Y&T – Yesterday and Today Live (Expanded Edition) Metal Blade Records (June 9th 2023) Reviewer: Mark Jackson San Francisco’s finest Y&T, a killer hard rock band have always been a powerful musical force driven by talented guitarist, singer, songwriter Dave Meniketti (known to fellow Muso’s as the triple threat!). On this live record they deliver the goods […]
Review: Vern Daysel – Call of the Wild Self Release (January 2023) Reviewer: Mark Jackson Hailing from the Southern Rock homeland of Florida, Vern Desyal is a Guitarist Singer songwriter steeped in Southern sounds,but with some twisting turns into unexpected musical geography. First shot, ‘Feed Me‘ has an almost Black Sabbath guitar tone with a […]
Review: Medicine Hat – Blue Moon Bootlegs Moose Records (2022) Reviewer: Dan Mann Medicine Hat and I go way back, over thirty years in fact, which can’t be right surly? Oh how time flies, or rapidly accelerates it seems haha! Anyway, before we veer off on a worrying tangent, let’s concentrate on matters in hand. […]
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