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John Davy
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Enjoy Your Breakfast John "biscuits and gravy" Davy lives on the outer reaches of the Western Highlands on the off grid community of Scoraig, he and his partner Debbie raise Exmoor Ponies, Cats and Kids and go to the spring for their water and to a windmill for their electricity, so if you email us, please be patient, we need the wind to be in the right direction to reply.

John also goes to the spring for his music, regularly!! Literally treking to gigs all over Scotland (least some of the way, the 3 miles or so to where the tarmac starts) to take in show's. His reviews are featured in Irelands Whisperin & Hollerin http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com England's Net Rhythms, http://www.netrhythms.co.uk he has his own column "Roots Round Up" in Scotlands Crooked Rain http://crookedrain.org.uk/?cat=3 and is UK correspondent to USA's Americana Homeplace. http://www.americanahomeplace.com/NewsCurrent.htm#Americana%20in%20UK click for Johns over view of the UK Americana Scene, and has recently been invited to contribute to http://www.music-news.com/Reviews.asp

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Latest Reviews

Kevin Higgins: Find Your Shine

Kevin Higgins is one of those guys who's been around music all his life but taken a lot of time to find his muse and his metier. It's one of the better aspects of the whole Americana music scene that guys lik…

Jeff Talmadge: Blissville(2006) and (At least that much was) True (2007)

It's a big country, the USA, and even just the state of Texas is big enough to produce songwriters of the quality of Jeff Talmadge who somehow manage to escape the attention of even quite avid fans like myself; makes you wonder how ma…

Mark Lennon: Down The Mountain

Oh, this is a pleasure. I've been listening to quite a bit of music from the dark side of life recently, which is fine because ultimately it tends to be more interesting, but life and art are about balancing light and shade. After all those bracing cold showers, it's jus

Mark Bates: Down The Narrow

On his myspace site, Mark Bates seems such a sweet, gently spoken young man, it's hard to believe that this is the same person who has produced an album that so m

Trilobite: Silver Skin

Trilobite's self-titled first album acquired a core of serious enthusiasts, myself included. Mark Ray Lewis' snapshot stories were married to music of spartan beauty, breaking out into actual tunes often enough to give the lis…

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At 6:01pm on January 23, 2010, Will Kimbrough said…
Cool...thanks!
At 3:29am on June 15, 2009, Vanessa Peters said…
Hey John,
Thanks for the great review of our record - I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it. Looking forward to meeting you when we're in the UK!
Cheers!
Vanessa
At 9:45am on March 30, 2009, Sarah MacDougall said…
Hi John! Thank you so much for the review, and for the friendship here. : ) but my website is www.sarahmacdougall.com

Best wishes, Sarah
At 3:17pm on March 28, 2009, No Depression said…
Hi John- Welcome to the new community site! We hope you're finding everything okay. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback (here are some FAQs in case anything's confusing). Thanks for joining. Cheers!
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Kevin Higgins: Find Your Shine


Kevin Higgins is one of those guys who's been around music all his life but taken a lot of time to find his muse and his metier. It's one of the better aspects of the whole Americana music scene that guys lik… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2010 at 3:00pm —

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Jeff Talmadge: Blissville(2006) and (At least that much was) True (2007)


It's a big country, the USA, and even just the state of Texas is big enough to produce songwriters of the quality of Jeff Talmadge who somehow manage to escape the attention of even quite avid fans like myself; makes you wonder how ma… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2010 at 8:01am —

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Mark Bates: Down The Narrow





On his myspace site, Mark Bates seems such a sweet, gently spoken young man, it's hard to believe that this is the same person who has produced an album that so m

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Posted on March 8, 2010 at 12:04pm —

John Davy

Trilobite: Silver Skin

Trilobite's self-titled first album acquired a core of serious enthusiasts, myself included. Mark Ray Lewis' snapshot stories were married to music of spartan beauty, breaking out into actual tunes often enough to give the lis… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2010 at 7:12am —

John Davy

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Genuine Negro Jig

It's just five years since these three guys got together - sorry, make that two guys and one gal - and at that point they were all fresh into the whole business of making string band music. In that time they've made a short journey out of becoming one of the most exciting string band revivalists about, and now… Continue

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