Reviews
Roots of Ska: USA Jamaica 1942-62
In his book Bass Culture, the writer Lloyd Bradley vividly evokes the era before ska and rocksteady eras in 50s...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Disconnected in New York City
Last December, Los Lobos played a three-night residency at NYC’s intimate City Winery. These normally plugged-in Los Angeleno rockers were...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Cluck O1’ Hen
The odd yet amazing thing about this album is the presence of the piano in a standard strings-and-things bluegrass band....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
One More for the Road
The Wiyos continue to surf a wave of popular acclaim, thanks to a 2009 appearance on the BBC documentary Folk...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds
Rayna Gellert’s great-grandfather was a Hungarian-born orchestral violinist whose career path led to a gig on a transatlantic cruise ship...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Roll Me, Tumble Me
The Deadly Gentlemen sport a thoroughbred bluegrass line-up of guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and double bass, and are fronted by...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
