Here is an example of how to review a recording ,this is a review written by a professional reviewer, that is one who gets paid for reviewing in national magazines, it is of relevance, because it is reviewing the same recording.
On my little concertina. DickMiles Brewhouse BH8812.
the title and the first sight of the sleeve had led me to expect an all instrumental record but in fact only four of the 14 tracks are purely instrumental.Very good they are too, some jigs some hornpipes,tunes and airs all admirably plagued.Eric Cowell has provided a very slight echo effect giving the concertina an attractive plangent resonance.
   there is a similiar effect on the only unaccompanied track" TamLinn".Dick Miles singing here is tuneful and true, though there is avery occasional feeling of strain and minimal strangulatedness in the voice, particularly apparent on the opening song 'Sailortown". there are better tunes for the "Range of The Buffalo" than the rather dull one used here atrributed to Woody Guthrie. Coasts of Peru is sung more slowly and sombrely than usual but comes off unexpectedly well like this.
Dick's own settings of songs are agreeable and accomplished without being all that memorable.though Crossed Lines will ring a bell with anyone who has ever had trouble getting a call through- i.e everybody.I also liked the title track an ingenuious patter song byJim Garrett about a man and a girl playing duets" fingering the buttons and squeezing the box: a thoroughly traditional motif highly redolent of all those squarings of looms, keeping of shuttles in play and windings-up of little balls of yarn. Michael Grosvenor-Myer
That is the way to do it, Constructive Criticism which is qualified, we expect professionalism from performers, yet professional peformers have to tolerate, reviews that make wild statements without qualification, or explaining why.
Jim Carroll, made a comment earlier in this thread which I find acceptable he prefers more passion in his blues singing, my answer to that is that I am singing in a style based upon Missippi John and Mance, which is a more understated style, but Jims point is valid.
    I have no objection to constructive criticism.
what I object to and I speak not just for myself but for every performer, is amateurish, unqualified statements and reviews whether they are rabbiting on about some unexplained intangible indefinible waffle at Readifolk, or statement about embarrassing uninspired singing without an explanation.
Folk roots was a professionally produced folk roots magazine yet allows these amateurish reviewers to hold forth,here is another oreview, that is disgraceful.
Chumbawamba English rebel songs 13811914 agitprop3]that comes equipped with a load of leftist Sparts speak and the statement" no wooly jumpers and big beards. Well give me Swan Arcade any day jumpers and beards and all because they have more passion,power and rebellion in their little toe than these wimps, Chumbawamba sing polite middle class floor singery wavery humourless versions of some great songs without one iota of feeling or the rage they should inspire Agitprop my arse.
all that reviewer illustrates that he is not fit to review anything, who was that Berk?