Our new album makes top reviewer Colin Randall’s Top Ten Albums of 2007!!!
Look here at the list..... www.salutlive top ten list   
and for his actual review, here.... www.salutlive review

’Colin Randall spent nearly 28 years working for the Telegraph and is an admired critic and reviewer. He has just posted his verdict on Dunc’s splendid album: Congratulations Duncan. To get a verdict like that from Colin Randall is high praise indeed’. Sir Robert Peel – Longdogs Forum

’One of our albums of the year!’ - www.rootsmusic.co.uk

A ’Five Star’ review from.......Rock ’n’ Reel.... Mar/Apr 08 issue - THE DUNCAN McFARLANE BAND - All Rogues & Villains *****
Wearing their musical influence like a badge of pride, The Duncan McFarlane Band proudly proclaim on the back cover of their second album, All Rogues & Villains, "We class our music as Folk-Rock". The unreconstructed six-piece from Yorkshire make no bones about or excuses for their desire to produce memorable, attractive and danceable folk-fuelled rock that offers a knowing nod to the 70s masters. Consequently traces of Horslips, Fairport, Jack The Lad, Steeleye and the classic folk-rock sound of punchy bass lines and solid, driving rhythms abound. There’s also a quality of delivery, vocal authority, and some stunning lead riffs, plus neat accordion and fiddle interplay. Their readings of ’Botany Bay’, ’Rakish Young Fellow’, ’Band O’Shearers’, ’Lord Franklin’, ’Lowlands Of Holland’ and ’A-Begging I Will Go’ provide a real master class in just how to do the folk-rock thing right, while their own songs and tunes, four of each, sit comfortably amongst the more familiar folk-rock fare.
Steve Caseman - Rock ’n’ Reel

’efdss’ - English Folk Dance & Song Society - Quarterly Publication ’EDS’ - Spring 2008, page 46 ’All Rogues & Villains’ - The Duncan McFarlane Band 
This is a band that has taken the strong lyricism of traditional music and has really banged it into rock with style and grace. Firm and rhythmic drumming, sharp and perceptive fiddling and a keen sense of arrangement throws this music back at you and screams ’listen to me’. This, the band’s second album, finds them sounding well rehearsed and polished and Duncan clearly gets terrific enjoyment out of singing; not always the easiest of emotions to pull off on a record. It comes from clarity of words, from a strong sense of narrative and from subtle – and sometimes not so subtle – changes of pace. And there is a jump-up-and-down feel that makes a lot of their music totally infectious.
Following on from their debut The Woodshed Boys, this album contains a similar mixture of traditional songs and tunes alongside Duncan McFarlane originals. I especially like ’Bed of Straw’, one of Duncan’s own songs about recruiting – it could easily be mistaken for a traditional song! As the sergeant presses the money into the travellers’ hands you can ’hear’ the smile on Duncan’s face.
The addition of Stan Rogers’ ’North-West Passage’ chorus to ’Lord Franklin’ is brilliant – it really shows the rocking element of the band at its best and makes you wonder why no-one has done it before.
Anne Brivonese’s fiddle soars and dives and weaves with Steve Fairholme’s melodeon throughout, and she adds an extra, slightly understated solo voice on the ’The Lowlands of Holland’. The drummer, Nick Pepper, has some great moments, especially on ’Atholl Highlanders’. Geoff Taylor on electric guitar and Tony Rogerson on bass provide the steady-as-she-goes rock element. I know the band’s live performances are a riot of enjoyment; this is a grand replacement until you can actually get to see them.
Dave Eyre - ’EDS’ Magazine