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Review of Guitar Tango: Más Allá

Guitar Tango: Más Allá

Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mentored by the late bandoneón player and songwriter Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer Martín Alvarado has been plying his plaintive, precisely...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Live in San Francisco

Live in San Francisco

Ry Cooder & Famosos Corridos

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, which looks as impressive as its name, is one of the closest things to...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Guantanamera: The Essential Album

Guantanamera: The Essential Album

Compay Segundo

Rhino

Rating: ★★★★

‘Ten years without Compay Segundo,’ says the sticker on the album cover, which is a slightly odd marketing slogan for...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Memories and Moments

Memories and Moments

Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott

Full Skies

Rating: ★★★★

Listening to Memories and Moments, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott’s much-anticipated follow-up to last year’s live album, We’re Usually a...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of ¡Saoco! Vol 2

¡Saoco! Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

With its subtitle, Bomba, Plena and the Roots of Salsa in Puerto Rico 1955¬1967, this second big Vampisoul sampler tries...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of 1929

1929

Sheesham & Lotus & Son

Sepiaphone Records

Rating: ★★★

It is constantly amazing how many old-time bands are around today. From gutter punks busking on the streets of New...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Introducing the Wagon Tales

Introducing the Wagon Tales

The Wagon Tales

Wagon Tales

Rating: ★★★

This debut album from the current darlings of the UK bluegrass scene stands as a textbook example of what happens...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Vintage Americana

Vintage Americana

McCamy’s Old-Time Rendez-vous

Fiémeaux et Associés

Rating: ★★★

Ian McCamy is one of the leading fiddlers in old¬time American music circles. His illustrious playing has sparkled throughout albums...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Oldies and Old Time

Oldies and Old Time

Ivan Rosenberg

Vole-O-Tone

Rating: ★★★★

Ivan Rosenberg seems to care about the material he creates or interprets, as well as about who’s listening to the...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Hand on the Plow

Hand on the Plow

The Tillers

Muddy Roots Music Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The Tillers claim they once played in hardcore punk bands, and in their speed and dynamics you can hear the...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

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