Imagination

The bard of Sheffield looks back over a strange old year

Transporting guitar jams? Step right this way…

Nice thing turned up in the post the other day from one of my favourite labels at the moment, Tompkins Square. The New York label tends to specialise in fingerpicking guitarists who are very much in the tradition of the Takoma school, which they categorise, neatly enough, as “American Primitive Guitar”.

Ex-Mr Joan Collins' Willy Wonka years

From the Velvets to the underground: the songwriter frames her dour vision with two albums that remain obstinately avant-garde

Sumptuous mono vinyl reissue of undervalued folk-jazz totem

The full-length version!

Legendary live double receives extensive boxset treatment

Wonderful salute to influential singer-songwriter

Their 12th is a reflective restatement of songwriting and vocal class