Review: Lindsay Lou and The Flatbellys – February 2017
“I wrote this song sitting on my front porch in Nashville,” said Lindsay. “It was one of those days when the air is so hot and heavy you feel like you could cut it with a knife – do you get days like that?” As if in answer, at that moment one of the 60mph…
Review: Rayna Gellert Trio – January 2017
Friday was a pretty big day. First there was the small matter of the 45th President of the United States . Then there was the visit of the Rayna Gellert Trio to Whitstable Sessions . “Tonight we inaugurate the new album and our tour… and that’s the only inauguration I want to talk about!” Rayna…
Review: Ben Murray and Rosie Doonan – November 2016
If you’re in East Kent and yet the locals suddenly sound a bit more Geordie, the answer lies in the latest Whitstable Sessions gig. There was a crash course in Geordie from Ben and Rosie in an admittedly ambitious attempt to get the audience to sing along to Rap ‘Er Te Bank. Hands up if…
Review: Furnace Mountain – October 2016
“I hope y’all don’t mind being called y’all,” mandolin player Danny Knicely asked the Whitstable Sessions audience. Mind? We were so far under the spell of Furnace Mountain we were wishing we lived in the Shenandoah Valley and could be surrounded by the incredibly rich musical history of Virginia which these four musicians embody. So…
Review: Sean Taylor Trio – October 2016
This was Sean’s third pitstop at the club on a journey that has been taking him from undiscovered treasure through up and coming, one to watch and now successful touring and recording artist, with regular radio airplays and rave reviews, seven albums under his belt and another on the way and appearances at Glastonbury, among…
Review: Plainsong – July 2016
There were five talented musicians on stage for this gig – the two Bimble Brothers and three in Plainsong – but it felt like the room was filled with echoes of many more. First the brilliant Bimble Brothers played a lovely mix of their own material, blues and old-time American songs – and there they…
Review: Woody Pines – March 2016
If you miss the chance to catch Woody Pines and his band in the UK, you could follow them back to Nashville and join the crowd of 40,000 they’ll be playing in front of at the Grand Ol’ Opry. But if you were smart enough to have grabbed a ticket for their visit to Whitstable…