Fish Records Mailer Issue 23 (Feb/Mar 2003) This mailer contains one of the most balanced selections of discs we’ve ever had – a mixture of established and new artists covering contemporary singer/songwriter through to folk, with a few surprises in the mix. Every single one of the albums featured is of the highest order, and there’s something for every taste. |
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Bill McGarvey – Tell Your Mother This was the first disc to drop through the door in 2003, and it’s so impressive it’s a cast iron certainty that it will make our ‘best of’ end of year list. Hoboken based singer/songwriter McGarvey has been part of a few bands in the past.... full review £13.49 |
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Dar Williams – The Beauty of the Rain A new Dar Williams album is always important for Fish Records, without her first two albums, my voyage of discovery to the wider community of contemporary singer/songwriters would never have been made. This, her fifth.... full review £13.49 |
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Kathleen Edwards – Failer ‘Failer’ is Canadian Edwards’ debut album, which was originally independently released in 2002, and then picked up by an established US label for a wider release in 2003. One listen through is all you need to see why the disc.... full review £13.49 |
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Mary Lee’s Corvette – Blood on the Tracks If forced to choose a favourite album, then Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ would be the one I’d pick, so it was with a degree of caution that I approached this track by track cover of the album by singer/songwriter Mary Lee Kortes.... full review £13.49 |
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Flora Reed – Settle Down Debut albums from new singer/songwriters are always interesting, but it’s rare to find one as accomplished and composed as this wonderful disc from Flora Reed.
Although an acoustic album, it’s not quite what you’d expect.... full review |
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Diane Zeigler – Paintbrush We featured Diane’s previous, self-released album ‘These are the Roots’ about 18 months ago, and it’s still an album we really enjoy, it’s a lovely, unassuming singer/songwriter disc that’s full of quality; the songs, musicians.... full review £13.49 |
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Kate Rusby – Ten Released in late 2003 to mark her tenth year as a professional musician, it would be easy to dismiss this a retrospective or greatest hits package, but closer inspection shows that of the 15 tracks, 9 are newly recorded.... full review £13.49 |
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Susan Enan – Moonlight / Skin, Bone & Silicone CD single Emerging UK singer/songwriter Enan may still be making her name over here, but she’s already had excellent exposure in the US with a support slot on a Roger McGuinn tour. ‘Moonlight’ is a self-released 5 track CD.... full review £5.00 |
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Brooks Williams – Nectar Over the past four years we’ve carried and featured four of Brooks’ discs; each one has been excellent in it’s own way, from the classy singer/songwriters album ‘Hundred Year Shadow’ through to the purely acoustic ‘Little Lion’.... full review £13.49 |
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Various Artists - Respond II This all female double disc set is the follow up to probably the best compilation album that we carry - the original collection introduced many names that are now established artists with impressive solo albums, Mary Gauthier, Lori McKenna.... full review £14.99 |
