LIFE as an itinerant folk musician can be tough. Squeeze-box maestro John Spiers did a gig in East Yorkshire barely 12 hours after his second child, a lad called Robin, had been born in Oxfordshire.
IF the name Terry Reid fails to register, ask some old guy with a faraway look in his eyes. Whisper Superlungs, Silver White Light, May Fly or Rich Kid Blues in his ear and watch him start shaking parts that have not been shaken for an age.
THE Tony Kofi Quartet CD, The Silent Truth (Specific Records), is rated by Jazzwise magazine as a contender for the best British release, so far, of 2008.
