Reviews

Caieira

Tamy

Perhaps record label marketing departments know better, but the generic blandness of cover shots such as the one gracing this...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

In the Magic Hour

Aoife O’Donovan

Regular Songlines readers will need little introduction to Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan. Her exploits as soloist and collaborator with the...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Frankie and the No-Go Road

Rita Hosking

A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Sun Might Shine on Me

Grant Dermody

To call Seattle's white harmonica master a bluesman would only tell you part of the story. For sure, he understands...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Acabou Chorare

Novos Baianos

Originally released on Som Livre in 1972, Acabou Chorare was recently voted the Best Brazilian Album Ever in a Rolling...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Arise

The Abyssinians

Jamaican vocal trio The Abyssinians became legends with their seminal 1976 album Satta Massagana, which made an Afrocentric statement via...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Coffee Creek

Slocan Ramblers

What does modern bluegrass sound like? It sounds like The Slocan Ramblers – who sound a lot like the great...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Tangled Country

The Honey Dewdrops

Fans of the softer, gentler end of the Americana spectrum will be drawn to Tangled Country, the fourth album by...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Nação Zumbi

Nação Zumbi

It's close to 20 years since Nação Zumbi's original singer Chico Science died in a car accident, an event that...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Pompadour

Tim O’Brien

In the four years since his last solo recording, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien has been recording and touring with...

Reviewed in issue March/2016