Bob Fish

Forty Elephant Gang launch their album ‘Next Time Round’ with such a strong opener that it grabs you by the collar and simply won’t let go. An audacious beginning.

Farmer Dave and The Wizards of The West is a trip unlike anything else you are likely to take this year. This is music that cannot be contained. Resistance is futile.

With The Silver Sun, Eamon O’Leary has created an album that reminds of the things we may have forgotten over the past twelve months. He extends to us the “forgiveness of time.” In these days we need to hold on to that and to each other.

Bob Fish chats with Chris Salveter of Judson Claiborne – he is able to use his voice and musicality to entrance and enthrall simply by looking at the world and letting us know what he thinks. That is a remarkable gift.

Bob Fish looks back at 2020 and shares his Top 10 Albums including Bob Dylan, Gwenifer Raymond, Rowan Leslie, Andrew Tuttle, The Innocence Mission, Swamp Dogg, Steve Dawson, Tamikrest and more.

Calexico’s Seasonal Shift offers us a hefty helping of cheer from locales all around the world, at a time when we need it most. Plus, watch their new video featuring Bombino.

With his slightly unorthodox approach to traditional music, Rowan Leslie has created a set of music that attempts the feat of Escaping the Dawn. While that may seem like something of a fool’s mission, this album clearly is not.

Jennifer Castle’s “Monarch Season” heralds a passage of time, a change of seasons, yet inside the human heart, questions still remain. There is beauty in continuing to look for answers.

There is a certain kind of bravery at the heart of Laura Fell’s vision. Safe from Me indicates exactly how determined she was to realize it, regardless of the cost. The results indicate that it was quite clearly worth the investment.

Sun Collective provides Move\\Remove with the kind of sonic energy that requires a fearlessness to explore, but the results pay dividends.

Over the course of the four songs on Day Inside A Night, Brittain Ashford and Matt Bauer establish themselves as singers and songwriters unafraid to look at their world and expose themselves, flaws and all. No one could ask for more.

On ‘When a Man Loves an Omen’, Judson Claiborne transfix the listener while keeping them slightly off-balance at the same time, it’s one of the most compelling EPs of the year.