Rab Noakes: The Treatment Tapes EP review – brave, life-affirming set FROM his days with Gerry Rafferty in Stealers Wheel to his adventurous 2015 album I’m Walkin’ Here, Rab Noakes has always taken a highly individual approach to song-writing, reflecting his love of Americana,…
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What they say about I’m walkin’ here “Perfection” * * * * * – Maverick “Magnificent” * * * * – Guardian “Zestful” * * * * – Scotsman “Gem-laden” * * * * * –…
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RAB Noakes’ third album, Red Pump Special was a high budget, Nashville recorded debut for Warner Brothers in 1974. The two singles from the LP, Branch and Clear Day, became turntable hits, but failed to sell in sufficient quantities to make…
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THERE’S a tour starting in April and at least one date, if not more, really does belong in your diary. It combines the enduring talents of Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes, reunited with the essential simplicity of two guitars and…
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RAB Noakes is recalling the trip to the U.S. in 1973 that saw the Fife-born singer-songwriter recording in Nashville with a record producer, Elliot Mazer, who had just overseen one of the decade’s most popular albums, Neil Young’s Harvest, and…
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SOME demos and rarities stay in the vaults for good reasons. Others, like these nineteen tracks, make you wonder why they have, in most cases, been hidden away for so long. The opening track will be familiar to those who…
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