Along The Downs - Ashley Hutchings

Advantages: Brilliant songs and track quality.
Disadvantages: Might get on you nerves if you dislike the music style.

...CD a while ago and Im addicted to it! I especially love the songs Headstrong and He Said She Said. A brilliant album for teenagers everywhere. It has a very up-tempo pop theme like many other artist's but it is also very unique. Ashley Tisdale is a brilliant singer and her music is the type you can listen to over and over agin and never really get bored of it. Also the lyrics to them are very good and they make you just want to sing along. The sound quality on this CD is excellent and the pictures (on the front etc) are professional and good quality too. However, if you don't really like Ashley's style this CD would get on your nerves a lot. I'd rate Ashley Tisdale- Headstrong 5-stars and I highly reccomend it.... Read review

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Advantages: Informative and musically pleasing document of tradition
Disadvantages: The electric tracks

...Ashley Hutchings' interest in English folk tradition, developed during his days in Fairport Convention and fully realised in the Albion Band, is highlighted in this intriguing mixture of speech and music which compares and contrasts the customs and associated dances of the Welsh border counties with those of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. All of this combines to point the way back to England's "innocent" past where a local festival was an excuse for a booze-up and, on occasions, a bit of property damage directed at locals who wouldn't join in the fun. The verbal quotes, which span several centuries, also demonstrate how modernisation and officialdom brought these pastimes to near extinction. The music - Morris and Molly dancing tunes from opposite sides of the country - is by and large a treat to listen to, and proves to be equally... Read review

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Advantages: An interesting albion band line-up
Disadvantages: Nothing too exciting

...I wish I liked this album more than I do. Ashley Hutching's' latest combo to fly the Albion Band banner features the ubiquitous songstress Kellie While and the multi-talented Joe Broughton on fiddle, mandolin, keyboard and guitar. The trouble is, the album doesn't hang together. Sure it sounds like the band were having fun, but this is an album woefully short on quality. Two songs stand out: the soulful When My Son is Grown and She Still Waits. The majority of the album is humdrum and certain tracks like Cookery is the New Rock'n'Roll risk taking the Albions into Barron Knights territory. Even the excellent She Still Waits has its impact lessened by a spoken sub-Coney Island into, pretentiously titled It is That Window of Time. Road movies is a student film at best, and only of interest to die-hard Albion fans. Punters new to the group... Read review

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