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1. 1. Acoustic Strawbs

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 January 2002 Remember the days when strikers could bring the country to its knees and the Strawbs could satirise them in songs like (You Won’t Get Me I’m) Part of the Union’ (latterly used, apparently without irony, to flog personal pensions).

2. 2. A labour of love

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 February 2003 DAMIEN Rice's O, two years in the making and plainly a labour of love, is a small masterpiece.

3. 3. Depressing Ron Sexsmith

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 29 November 2001 IT'S generally a long, hard road that the singer-songwriter travels, but Ronald Eldon Sexsmith seems to have suffered for his art more than most.

4. 4. Taylor made music

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 September 2002 James Taylor's gentle, introspective folk-pop has been book-marking people's musical memories for more than 30 years. He tours his latest album October Road at the M.E.N Arena on Wednesday, September 18.

5. 5. Jackson Sundown’s Cosmic Country Christmas Knees-Up

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 December 2001 Manchester’s cosmic cowboys took their name from a legendary rodeo rider (he didn’t miss it, having long since departed for that great celestial corral).

6. 6. The Academy welcomes Karen Matheson

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 05 December 2002 "A THROAT surely touched by the hand of God.é Ités rare for folk singers to receive accolades from Sean Connery, but the voice of Karen Matheson surely merits this.

7. 7. Folk heroine Cara Dillon

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 17 March 2002 Congratulations are in order. Cara Dillon's won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - the Horizon Award for best newcomer and Best Traditional Track.

8. 8. Jon Spiers and Jon Boden

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 November 2002 John Spiers plays melodeon and sings. Jon Boden plays fiddle and sings. Yawn. You've heard it all before, and why should you pay good money when you can get this stuff free in sessions any night of the week?

9. 9. Introducing the Arlenes

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 March 2002 The story goes...Big Steve founder-member of hard-rockin’ country outfit A-La-Tex, was playing the London pub circuit when, across a crowded room, his eyes locked with those of Steph Arlene, one-time member of The Flesheaters.

10. 10. Orchestra Baobab

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 October 2002 Youssou N'Dour, mainman in the development of the Wolof mbalax which toppled Orchestra Baobab from pre-eminence on the 1970s Senegal music scene, guests on their magnificent new CD, Specialist In All Styles.

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