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Review of Jayme Stone's Folklife

Jayme Stone's Folklife

Jayme Stone

Top of the World

Jayme Stone/Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

An extension of his 2015 Lomax Project, the renowned Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone now presents us with Jayme Stone's Folklife,...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Banzeiro

Banzeiro

Dona Onete

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★

Find yourself some wiggle room: Dona Onete is back with another dose of salubrious grooves from the north of Brazil....

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of La Migra

La Migra

Battle of Santiago

Made With Pencil Crayons

Rating: ★★

Opening track ‘Aguanileo’ is a marvellous thing: seven minutes of swirling guitars and horns, electronic trills and crashing sound effects...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Mount Royal

Mount Royal

Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

What to call the music played by the two guitar virtuosos Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge? Chamber-folk? Jazz? Alt-Americana? What...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Louisiana Stomp: 1954-1960 Recordings

Louisiana Stomp: 1954-1960 Recordings

Clifton Chenier

Hoodoo Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Clifton Chenier is one of those rare musicians who pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music – zydeco....

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Jongando

Jongando

Catia Werneck

10H10 Records

Rating: ★★★

The last time we had heard of Brazilian singer Catia Werneck she was following a common path within the country's...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Where the River Meets the Road

Where the River Meets the Road

Tim O'Brien

Howdy Skies Records

Rating: ★★★★

Classic country and bluegrass fans – folks who revere Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs and the...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of Songs from Mexico

Songs from Mexico

Yuly Tovar

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Review of And it Was Good

And it Was Good

The Andrew Collins Trio

Andrew Collins Trio

Rating: ★★★★

While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Awakening

Awakening

Spiritual

Oufah Music/VP Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to ‘Black Man Story’, the opening track, is like stepping back to the 1970s, so evocative are the vocal...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

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