Reviews
And it Was Good
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
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs
In these pages last year (#120) I reviewed Greg Vandy's book 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
An unsung hero of the counterculture from the 1960s and early 70s, Bruce Langhorne is finally getting some much-deserved attention...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Días Felices
No wonder artists and dreamers gravitate to the American south-west in search of landscapes, inspiration and spirit-reviving experiences. For all...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Tastes Like LA
So diverse is Latin American music that most artists, when they come to fusions, choose a couple of elements and...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Miky y Repa
La Reyna y La Real first met in 2012 on the underground rap circuit in Havana, having initially trod quite...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
The Boston States
The title of this album refers to the moniker given to the greater metro area of Boston in the 19th...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Universal Favorite
On hearing this album's lyrical opener ‘Waveland’, which consists of a dainty series of arpeggiated banjo ripples, you could be...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Vocês Querem Mate?
Vocês Querem Mate? is the latest instalment in Far Out's ongoing resurrection of the catalogue on Roberto Quartin's long-buried record...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
