Music Musings by Chris
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Jenny Colquitt - Brindley Theatre, Runcorn - Saturday 10th September 2022
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Top Ten Albums of 2021
At the risk of missing any December latecomers, I thought it was the right time to put together my list of top ten albums of 2021.
Right off the bat, I'm going to make it clear that this is just a list of ten albums. If I tried to rank these from one to ten, I think I'd be here until this time next year.
In the process of putting together this list, I'd made a note of several albums that I could have sworn had come out in 2021. They were however 2020 albums which just goes to show my concept of what happened and when in the last couple of years has been knocked off kilter.
It has felt at times like one day has merged into the next and in some ways it is music that has helped me get through it. Whether it has been music releases, online streams or the tentative return of live music, it has all given me hope that better things are to come in 2022.
Anyway, with all that said, on with the list....
Honourable mentions:
Leah Blevins - First Time Feeling
Ashland Craft - Travelin' Kind
Katie Jo - Pawn Shop Queen
Lainey Wilson - Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Danni Nicholls - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham - 26th October 2021
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Jenny Colquitt - Brindley Theatre, Runcorn - 15th October 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
Back to the indoors.....
However by about half way through the first song by the Sara Petite Band, I felt completely at ease. Sara's joyful and traditional style, ably assisted by the talents of guitarist Joe Coombs and upright bass player Scott Warman, provided a wonderful evening of music on what was the final night of the tour. The band performed several from Sara's latest album "Rare Bird" and also a few from her back catalogue including a new favourite of mine, "Lead the Parade", from the album of the same name.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Morgan Wade - The X Factor?
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
My Favourite Discovery of 2020
For me it is quite a rare occurrence, but now and again I hear a new artist and I am completely stopped in my tracks. I have discovered many new artists to listen to courtesy of Linda's show Voice of a Woman, however one stands out head and shoulders above the rest in 2020.
Voice of a Woman broadcasts on a Sunday at 6pm and listening to the show is normally something I combine with getting tea ready, eating tea and clearing up afterwards. I remember vividly that I was in my kitchen washing up the first time that I heard the music of Jenny Colquitt. Linda played her song “Tell Me Where The Light Is” and I was instantly captured by the sound. I was truly mesmorised and it was only the song finishing and the realisation that I was dripping soapy water all over the kitchen floor that snapped me back to some level of awareness of what was going on around me. This was not a feeling I had experienced since the first time I heard the music of Eva Cassidy.
Jenny is a talented and versatile singer-songwriter and her music spans many different genres. She has two EP albums of her own music out but she is also equally adept at producing excellent cover versions of many different classic songs, again covering many different styles. Jenny has what I would call a “magic ear”, when it comes to interpreting a song, putting her own twist on it while still retaining the original essence of the song.
The 2016 EP “The Quiet Kind” and the 2020 follow up “Dear Daughter” are both superb and I have posted the Bandcamp link at the bottom of this post. Please check out Jenny's music there, stream it on Spotify and look up Jenny's social media accounts. She also streams regularly on Youtube and Facebook and has just started streaming on Twitch as well so there are plenty of chances to hear Jenny live (or at least as close to live as we can manage at the moment).
Jenny's songwriting is very honest and genuine. She truly writes from the heart and her songs are full of passion and feeling. What I like is that she doesn't shy away from writing songs about difficult subjects. Songs such as “I am Yours” which is about addiction, it is difficult to not be moved by Jenny's performance as emotion seeps out of every pore.
I can't wait to see where the journey takes her in 2021. Seeing Jenny live in concert is one of the first things I want to do when it is safe to do so, restrictions are eased and live music can begin to take place again. It will be a special moment.
Please visit Jenny's website by clicking on the link below:
Jenny Colquitt Music
Please see Jenny's Bandcamp page:
Jenny Colquitt Bandcamp