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Saturday March 14th STEELIN AINT A CRIME (Get it? Steel guitars?)
at The Luminaire, Kilburn, London NW6
DON'T MISS THIS SPECIAL OCCASION
playing together are AL PERKINS - legendary steel guitar and dobro player (Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers) - and BJ Cole - formidable pedal steel guitar player (Cochise and sessions galore) - together with David Rothon (Redlands Palomino Company), Spencer Cullum (Deadstring Brothers), Alex Chappelow (Two Fingers Of Firewater) and band. Vocalists: Confirmed vocalists include Alan Tyler (The Rockingbirds, Lost Sons Of Littlefield), Ange Boxall (The Wagon Band), Jonathan Clake (Two Fingers Of Firewater), Alex and Hannah Elton-Wall (Redlands Palomino Company). Other singers will be added.
http://www.theluminaire.co.uk/

Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk (New West)
Diana Jones - Better Times Will Come
Jon Boden - Songs From The Floodplain (Navigator)
The Martin Green Machine - First Sighting (Navigator)
Alyth - People Like Me (ANE Records)
Winterpills - Central Chambers (Signature Sounds)
Pierce Pettis - That Kind of Love (Compass)
Ella Edmondson - Hold Your Horses (Monsoon)
Neal Casal - Roots & Wings (Fargo)
Miranda Lee Richards - Light of X (Nettwerk)
Chris Eckman - The Last Side Of The Mountain (Glitterhouse)
Jackie Leven - The Haunted Year/Winter (Cooking Vinyl)
James Taylor - Covers (Hear Music/ Universal)
Aynsley Lister - Equilibrium (Manhaton Records)
Rod Picott and Amanda Shires - Sew Your Heart With Wires
Amanda Shires - West Coast Timbers
Nell Bryden - Live From Iraq (157)
Captain Wilberforce - Everyone Loves A Villain (Blue Tuxedo) released March 9th
Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters - Dynomite (Crosscut Records)
Novalima - Coba Coba (Cumbancha)
Jacanda - Skimming Stones (Own Label)
M. Ward - Hold Time (4AD)
Ane Brun - Changing Of The Seasons (Balloon Ranger)
Bellowhead - Live At Shepherd's Bush Empire (Westpark Music)
Jack Crawford - Pride Of The Season (WildGoose Studios)
Martin & Shan Graebe - Dusty Diamonds (WildGoose Studios)
Mike Silver - How Many Rivers (Faymus)
Incredible String Band - Tricks Of The Senses (Hux Records)
Various Artists - Transatlantic Sessions 1 (The Original Transatlantic Sessions) DVD (Whirlie)
Michael Black - Michael Black (Compass)
The Gibson Brothers - Iron And Diamonds (Sugar Hill)
Drew Emmitt - Long Road (Compass)
Athena Tergis - A Letter Home (Compass)
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (Realworld)
Jan & Pete Shevlin - Better Late (Own Label)
Catriona Watt - Cadal Cuain (Footstompin')
Kevin Burke - If The Cap Fits (Mulligan)
Various Artists - The Drift Collective (Drift)
Jeremy Taylor - Ag Pleez Deddy/Shearing The Poms/Live In Chicago (Folksound)
Ray Hubbard - Norfolk Bred (Veteran)
Bailey - Stop Me From Falling (Northern Sun Recordings)
Glyn Bailey - Songs From The Old Illawalla (GLYNB Music)
Duncan Chisholm - Farrar (Copperfish Records)
Mark Dunlop - Islands On The Moon (Greentrax)
Rosie Doonan - Moving On (Silvertop Records)
Various Artists - English International: A History Of The English Concertina (Folksound)
Tim Moon - Mutton Town (Inside Motion)
Damien Barber & Mike Wilson - Under The Influence (Demon Barber Sounds)
Black Parrot Seaside - Ain't It Grand? (Spindrift Records)
Hanggai - Introducing Hangggai (World Music Network)
Zoox 88 (Zoox Records)
Roger Wilson - You Look Familiar (Whiff Music)
James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In (Domino)
Mabs & Gordon Hall - As I Went Down To Horsham (Veteran)
Liz Law & Terry Conway - Of Riots And Rabbits (Stonehouse Music)
Graham & Sam Pirt - Dance Ti' Thee Daddy (Fellside)
(BOOK) Peter Cox - Set Into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger And The Radio Ballads (Labatie Books)
(BOOK) Sid Griffin - Million Dollar Bash: Bon Dylan, The Band And The Basement Tapes (Jawbone Press)

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Those of you who are LITTLE FEAT fans may have heard that they are touring Europe (including UK) in May. You may not have heard that they have decided to "let go" (a term we are hearing a lot these days) their lead singer of over 15 years, the amazing Shaun Murphy. Seeing her in action at Hopetoun House, near Edinburgh in 2000, I wrote, "Shaun Murphy's version of Dylan's It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry was as passionate and dirty a blues as I've ever seen performed...." If you'd like to hear the great lady in action go straight to
http:// www.myspace.com/_shaunmurphy