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Fish Records Mailer Issue 21 (Oct/Nov 2002)

After the usual summer break things have really started to hot up with new releases, with almost too many great albums been released over the last few weeks - the Ellis Paul, Guy Clark, Rod Picott, Linda Thompson, and Alice Peacock albums represent huge quality across the entire range of styles we carry, any one of these albums would be excellent additions to any record collection. As a collection of discs, the albums featured in this mailer are probably the strongest and most varied we've ever featured. We have a fantastic signed Ellis Paul book as the competition prize.
The last few months of 2002 are proving to be a golden age for singer/songwriter albums. Enjoy!


Ellis Paul - The Speed of Trees

This is Ellis' first 'proper' album since 1998s fantastic 'Translucent Soul' (a collection that four years after its release stands up as one of the very best contemporary singer/songwriter albums around). The intervening years have.... full review

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Rod Picott - Stray Dogs

Following hot on the heels of last years fantastic 'Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues', this new album has a lot to live up to - and on 'Stray Dogs' he really delivers on the promise evident in his debut album.
He's an Americana.... full review

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Guy Clark - The Dark

Guy Clark is very select in the albums he releases, over the past 25 years or so he's only released a very small number of discs, but each one is a fantastic, studied collection of crafted songs, and 'The Dark' is no exception.... full review

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Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late

It's 17 years since last new release, and while it's taken some time, this is an album that has certainly been worth waiting for.
'Fashionably Late' is one of the finest contemporary British folk discs for many years.... full review

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The Kennedys - Get it Right

There's an element of surprise with every new release from The Kennedys, the albums are all consistently strong, but they never rest on their musical laurels, each album introduces new elements to their music, but builds.... full review

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Alice Peacock - Alice Peacock

We featured Alice's self released debut in a previous mailer, and in the intervening time Alice has obviously been very busy - this new release is now on a major label (Sony), and it's a big step up from the debut album in every respect.... full review

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Various - Going Driftless. An Artists Tribute to Greg Brown

Following on in the same vein as last years Red House tribute to Bob Dylan ('A Nod to Bob'), comes 'Going Driftless', a similar collection featuring the songs of Greg Brown.  This amazing collection features some of the very.... full review

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Cliff Eberhardt - School for Love

Cliff's first major release came in 1990, and each subsequent release has shown subtle development and improvement on the last - and this, his sixth album, is the one that has the most to offer.
'School for Love' is.... full review

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Mary Ann Farley - My Life of Crime

Occasionally a disc arrives that's packaged in such a way that it demands you listen to it immediately - 'My Life of Crime' is one of those, and the distinctive artwork really sets the tone for the twelve songs that follow.... full review

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Various - Bob Harris Presents Vol 3

The third annual release from Bob, and like the previous albums, it features tracks from artists that operate outside the mainstream. While many of the names here will be immediately familiar to our customers.... full review

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Peter Mulvey - Ten Thousand Mornings

While Mulvey's previous albums have all included a cover or two, this disc is all songs written and made famous by others, and the range stretches from the traditional 'Rain & Snow' to The Beatles 'For No One'.... full review

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Lori McKenna - Paper Wings & Halo (re-issue)

We've carried copies of this, Lori's debut release for some time, but following the success of the subsequent album 'Pieces of Me' the disc has been re-issued with 3 extra songs - and this gives us the excuse to feature it in the mailer.... full review

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