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20/03/2025

SUNDAY MERCURY + VARIOUS REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS - MARCH 2025
RETURN TO FOREVER: MUSICMAGIC - CD
RELEASED: FRIDAY 21st MARCH 2025
FLOATING WORLD / JAZZ-A-NOVA: JAZAS 7012

18/03/2025

RELEASED: FRIDAY 2nd MAY 2025
THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND: JOYFUL NOISE / BACKYARD TRACKS
FLOATING WORLD: FLOATD 6470 – CD ONLY

The Derek Trucks Band, familial alumni to the legendary Southern Rock combo The Allman Brothers Band have their 2002 album JOYFUL NOISE reissued on the RETROWORLD reissue division of North London indie label FLOATING WORLD.

The albums’ ten selections are supplemented by BACKYARD TRACKS, a four-track live set previously only available as a promotional release, not generally available.

Derek Trucks and his band explore an impressive selection on musical styles on JOYFUL NOISE, from Modal Eastern (‘Maki Madni’, featuring guest vocalist Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), through to Latinate Funk (‘Kam-Ma-Lay’, featuring guest vocalist Ruben Blades), ‘Lookout 31’, a frenetic Jazz / Fusion composition featuring some glorious moments of ferocious atonality and added skronk, as well as the customary Southern Rock, gutsy blues and some fine R&B in the shape of ‘Home In Your Heart’ and ‘Like Anybody Else’, both of which feature the great Solomon Burke on lead vocals.

This top value set is a fine primer to the music of the Derek Trucks Band; it pushes so many buttons in terms of top quality musicianship, fine production values, crisp recording, breathtaking stylistic diversity, and a motherlode of stellar ensemble playing. Please contact us here at Indiscreet PR for further information.

13/03/2025

RnR - VOLUME 2 ISSUE 110 - MARCH/APRIL 2025
DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET:
THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS
FLOATING WORLD: FBOX 6467 – 5 CD BOX SET

13/03/2025

SUNDAY MERCURY + VARIOUS REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS - MARCH 2025
LEAFHOUND: ONCE BITTEN
CD, DOWNLOAD AND LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL
RELEASED: FRIDAY, MARCH 7th 2025
REPERTOIRE RECORDS: REPUK1487
Leaf hound vocalist Peter French is available for interview in support of this release. Contact us here at Indiscreet PR for further details.

13/03/2025

RnR - VOLUME 2 ISSUE 110 - MARCH/APRIL 2025
JULIE DRISCOLL / BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY:
LIVE AT MONTREUX 1968
REPERTOIRE: REPUK 1484
First time official release! – Recorded live and restored and remastered from the original archive tapes.

05/03/2025

MARY LEE KORTES
MARCH 2025 - UK TOUR DATES - WITH CAROL HODGE
MARY LEE KORTES: ‘WILL ANYBODY KNOW I WAS HERE
(THE SONGS OF BEULAH ROWLEY)?’
FOUR TRACK EP SAMPLER - AVAILABLE NOW
MARY LEE KORTES IS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW.
CONTACT US HERE AT INDISCREET TO BOOK YOUR SLOT / REVIEW TICKETS

“As she says in her poem, “What matters is our dreams”, and this is indeed the stuff that dreams are made on.”
Mike Davies, KLOF Magazine

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural"
Jon Pareles, The New York Times

“Mary Lee Kortes's voice combines the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." ~ David Fricke, Rolling Stone

MARY LEE KORTES UK TOUR DATES (WITH CAROL HODGE)

MARCH 2025:
THURS 20th - HUDDERSFIELD - PARISH
FRI 21st - CHORLEY - FOXTAILS
SAT 22nd - LONDON - ACES & EIGHT
SUN 23rd - PETERBOROUGH - CHARTERS
MON 24th - BIRMINGHAM - ROCK 'N ROLL BREWHOUSE
WED 26th - STOKE-ON-TRENT - ARTISAN TAP
THURS 27th - HAWICK - QUEENS HEAD
FRI 28th - DONCASTER - DYSTOPIA AT BREWERY
SAT 29th - YORK - FORTY FIVE VINYL

Mary Lee Kortes is a New York based singer-songwriter who has carved an intriguing career over the last three decades or so. Whether it’s fronting her band Mary Lee’s Corvette, or as a soloist, Kortes is blessed with a voice of great emotive clarity and richness – and on her new album Will Anybody Know That I Was Here: The Songs of Beulah Rowley, she also displays a narrative gift worthy of the finest storytellers. A multi-faceted and genuinely immersive set, it was born out of Kortes’s desire to expand the format of the ‘album’, to make her next long playing project less a bunch of loosely connected songs, and more of a cohesive work with a sense of character and purpose – something which could incorporate her love for writing fiction. “I went to sleep one night while on tour with all of this on my mind,” she says “and I woke up in the morning with this woman in my head named Beulah Rowley, a depression-era singer-songwriter, from the Midwest like me.”

‘Will Anybody Know I Was Here?’ came together under the auspices of Hal Willner. To the uninitiated, the late Hal Willner was a remarkable record producer who crafted the sound on recordings by artists as diverse as Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, and even the writer William S Burroughs. His visionary studio approach helped Kortes bring the Beulah Rowley concept to full fruition; a creative exchange between artist and mentor that delivers rich rewards across the album.

A four track EP sampler from the album features that fine British singer-songwriter and musician Joe Jackson on keyboards and backing vocals on the song ‘Green Sand’; ‘Fingernail Moon’ showcases brilliantly Kortes’ talent for striking imagery set to an equally inspired arrangement, highlighting the musical symbiosis between Kortes and producer Willner. ‘Someplace We Can’t See’ and the title track offer different facets of the album, and will surely inspire the listener to investigate the remarkable talent of Mary Lee Kortes still further. Even better, you can catch the MLK experience in live performance on tour with the similarly inventive British singer-songwriter CAROL HODGE on tour in the UK in March 2025.

04/03/2025

RELEASED: FRIDAY 25th APRIL 2025
ELLEN WADE: THEN & NOW – CD
SELF RELEASED: EWCD 001
Ellen Wade is available for interview in support of this release.
Contact us here at Indiscreet PR for further details.

A marvellous showcase for a remarkable talent…

The world of popular music has countless ‘Sliding Doors’ moments. Stories of where, if not for an unforeseen series of events, a performers’ career could have turned out far differently. One such story is that of Scottish-born vocalist and songwriter, Ellen Wade. How so?

Well, back in the mid-sixties, then in her early twenties, was asked to briefly replace vocalist Judith Durham of The Seekers for a short residency in Bournemouth whilst Durham was in hospital. Despite the challenge of having to step into the shoes of an artist that was then at the peak of her career, Ellen was very well-received. She had already been recognised as a vocal talent of considerable promise in the hot house scene of London as the sixties swung. Not long after guesting with The Seekers, Ellen released her debut album, This Year’s Lovers.

On the self-released Then and Now, with recordings that span over half a century, mostly in a Folk or Folk Ballad style, Ellen is joined by John Sweet (acoustic guitar), Ed Hewitt (violin) and Phillip Goss (keyboards, bass and drums). How Cold Is The Wind & When You’re Young were recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios.

Ellen Wade possesses a voice of real emotional power and sweet purity. Now resident in North East England, Ellen occasionally performs at open mike nights in local venues, and frequently stuns an audience into rapt attention with the quality of her voice. Then and Now is reissued on Friday April 25th 2025

02/03/2025

BLUES IN BRITAIN ISSUE 279 - MARCH 2025
MIKE BLOOMFIELD:
IT’S NOT KILLING ME & LIVE AT THE OLD WALDOLF
FLOATING WORLD: FLOATD 6468 – 2 CD SET

28/02/2025

CLASSIC ROCK ISSUE 338 - APRIL 2025
LEAFHOUND: ONCE BITTEN
CD, DOWNLOAD AND LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL
RELEASED FRIDAY, MARCH 7th 2025
REPERTOIRE RECORDS REPUK1487
Leaf hound vocalist Peter French is available for interview in support of this release. Contact us here at Indiscreet PR for further details.

28/02/2025

CLASSIC ROCK ISSUE 338 - APRIL 2025
DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET:
THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS
FLOATING WORLD: FBOX 6467 – 5 CD BOX SET

26/02/2025

SUNDAY MERCURY+VARIOUS REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS - FEBRUARY 2025
ROBBEN FORD AND THE BLUE LINE:
LIVE AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 1993
REPERTOIRE: REPUK 1475 - CD / DVD SET

25/02/2025

VARIOUS REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS - FEBRUARY 2025
Bury Times, Morning Star, Lancashire Telegraph, Basingstoke Gazette etc...
RETURN TO FOREVER; MUSICMAGIC
RELEASED: FRIDAY 21st MARCH 2025
FLOATING WORLD / JAZZ-A-NOVA: JAZAS 7012

21/02/2025

AUDIOPHILE - FEBRUARY 2025
MIKE BLOOMFIELD: REVIEW FROM 1.35 - 2.04 MINUTES
IT’S NOT KILLING ME & LIVE AT THE OLD WALDOLF
FLOATING WORLD: FLOATD 6468 – 2 CD SET

Welcome to Music Alerts! There's a CD special for you this time around. VIDEO CONTENTS00:00 - Introduction00:09 -Stein Urheim00:56 - John Calvin1:35 - Mike B...

17/02/2025

RECORD COLLECTOR - ISSUE 568 -MARCH 2025
DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET:
THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS
RELEASED: FRIDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2025
FLOATING WORLD: FBOX 6467 – 5 CD BOX SET

17/02/2025

BLABBER N SMOKE - FEBRUARY 2025
DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET:
THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS
RELEASED: FRIDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2025
FLOATING WORLD: FBOX 6467 – 5 CD BOX SET

Now, here’s a thing, a bit of a holy grail really if you are a fan of Doug Sahm in his early incarnations, the leader of various line ups of The Sir Douglas Quintet. The Complete Mercury Recordings…

14/02/2025

MOJO - ISSUE 377 - APRIL 2025
DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET:
THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS
RELEASED: FRIDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2025
FLOATING WORLD: FBOX 6467 – 5 CD BOX SET

11/02/2025

MUSIC NEWS - FEBRUARY 2025
LEAFHOUND: ONCE BITTEN
CD, DOWNLOAD AND LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL
RELEASED: FRIDAY, 7th MARCH 2025
REPERTOIRE RECORDS: REPUK1487
Leaf hound vocalist Peter French is available for interview in support of this release. Contact us here at Indiscreet PR for further details.

Leafhound is one of those names, the ones cited by the cognoscenti as a major influence,

07/02/2025

VELVET THUNDER - FEBRUARY 2025
PAUL JONES & DAVE KELLY - JANUARY / FEBRUARY UK TOUR 2025
WITHAM HALL GIG REVIEW - SUNDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2025

With an average age of just about 80, it’s massively impressive to see these two veteran bluesmen pulling a seventeen date tour in February, which will take t