Reviews
Smoke Behind the Clouds
Smoke Behind the Clouds taps the deep, rich reservoir of the old-time American songbook. Led by East Tennessee native Joseph...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Fading Mystery
There's a lot of this around: acoustic groups led by articulate singer-songwriters playing accomplished bluegrass-influenced music. But while Taarka aren’t...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Jayme Stone's Folklife
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
Banzeiro
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
La Migra
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
Mount Royal
Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
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
Louisiana Stomp: 1954-1960 Recordings
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
Jongando
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
Where the River Meets the Road
Classic country and bluegrass fans – folks who revere Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs and the...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Songs from Mexico
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
