Olabelle | Meltdown review

Purcell Room, LondonNaming your band after your musical hero – in this case the legendary American old-time singer Ola Belle Reed – is dangerous; but this five-piece New York ensemble have no need to worry about doing their namesake justice. Richard Thompson describes Ollabelle's sound as the sole successor to the Band's 1968 album Music from Big Pink; and while you can tick off their influences as they play – gospel, bluegrass, Appalachian, blues – you still reach the end of the evening...

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