Jones, Nic: Penguin Eggs (CD) AUGUST this is an essential album

this is an essential album in the discography of the late great jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery

a small band of musicians from the island of Jamaica landed in a cold and dreary London to begin recording their latest album

But if this album is the sound of lockdown in Dublin’s

The Hard One

done in trans-cultural blend that inflects Ashby's jazz roots with Eastern-styled instrumentation - and sends the whole thing home with beats and grooves on the bottom

Jones, Nic: Penguin Eggs (CD) AUGUST this is an essential albumNic Jones' wonderful 1980 release, which was named Folk Album Of The Year by both Melody Maker and Folk Roots and has subsequently been called one of the 100 Greatest British Albums. This mature work of a brilliant song interpreter and guitarist, packed with fresh songs and novel settings, is rendered all the more valuable by the scarcity of Nic's recordings. When Bob Dylan appropriated his arrangement of "Canadee I O", it was just one sign of Jones'