Reviews
Edge of the Sun
The music of Joey Burns and John Convertino, Calexico's core members, has long explored the Tex-Mex sounds of the cactus-strewn...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
Robert Earl Keen's latest album kicks off with a funky little hoedown by Flatt & Scruggs, ‘Hot Corn, Cold Corn.’...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
So Delicious!
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Following their album of gospel songs last year, So Delicious! picks up where this hard rocking country blues trio's 2012...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Magia Negra: The Beginning
For her latest offering, the octogenarian diva and former Buena Vista Social Club singer has revisited the first LP she...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Wood, Wire & Words
A mere four decades after his last album of original songs was released (1974's Fields of November), Norman Blake gives...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa
Whether or not the odd trippy fuzz guitar, some intergalactic electronic keyboards and a dash of echo really qualifies as...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Le Mississippi
This double CD comes with extensive notes (in French and English), providing a broad contemporary overview of roots music along...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Symphony!
Good melodies are dauntingly difficult to write. So perhaps it's not surprising that on projects like this one the performances...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Mayas: Révélation d’un Temps Sans Fin
This raw-sounding compilation was specially produced for a 2014/2015 exhibition on the Mayas at the Quai Branly museum in Paris....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Caprichos
The Brazilian virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda has shown over numerous albums his mastery of the ten-string mandolin. Brought up on...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
