Reviews
Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail
With a banjo, guitar, quietly affecting alto voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of American folk songs, Stephen Wade creates a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2017
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Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys
In 2012, having entertained fans of traditional bluegrass for nearly 40 years, Banjo Dan & the Mid-Nite Plowboys retired. Founded...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2016
A Parulluccia
Alba emerged from the rebirth of Corsican music at the end of the 20th century, honouring the distinctive polyphony of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: June/2018
Thamesis
If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014
Mediterranean Quartet
Matia Levréro & Tcha Limberger
Belgian Gypsy violinist Tcha Limberger has featured several times in these pages for his excellent jazz manouche, Hungarian Gypsy and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2019
Unfolding the Roots
Projects such as this, in which everyone is playing the same type of instrument, can often seem like a nerdy...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2017
Euphoric Ouroboric
David Wax and Suz Slezak are the husband-and-wife duo fronting the Mexo-Americana troupe David Wax Museum. Recorded in the couple’s...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
ARC
Although this is only McGoldrick's fifth solo album in 22 years and his first since 2010, the genial Manchester-based flute,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018
Live @ 25
The Isle of Skye-based Peatbog Faeries have been a staple on the Scottish trad scene for 25 years now, and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2018
Cannibal Courtship
Dengue Fever's latest album is a step up from their last studio effort, Venus on Earth, in 2008. The band...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2011
