Reviews
Mali Denhou
With both Ali Farka Touré and Lobi Traoré gone, Boubacar Traore must now be Mali’s pre-eminent bluesman. Approaching 70, his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Ramblin Feels Good
This is a fine showcase for the hard-driving mainstream bluegrass fare upon which Scroggins and Colorado have established a solid...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2016
The Ravishing Genius of Bones
Anyone still labouring under the misapprehension that the tin whistle is a poor man's instrument will have their preconceptions shattered...
Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Voice of Flowers: Spring Ragas from India
Baluji Shrivastav is a UK-based Indian classical musician who, although blind from the age of eight months, has gone on...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2021
Crooked Tree
Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
Stand & Deliver
Pilgrims’ Way have had something of a chequered history. In 2011, the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddle player Tom...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018
Daybreak
Between Sarah Jarosz and Sierra Hull, there seems to be a surfeit of teenaged mandolin-strumming-singer-songwriter prodigies on the acoustic/bluegrass scene...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Fabian Holland
The real challenge of folk music in a post-industrial society is how to make it relevant. Fabian Holland is a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Star Rise: Remixed
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
This is the latest classic in the Real World Gold series. As such, it is a little peculiar, being a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
