Reviews
Camino
Gustavo Santaolalla gets around. Whether on home visits to Argentina, European tours with Bajofondo or work trips around his adopted...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Calypso/Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
‘Day-o! Day-ay-ay-o! Daylight come and me wan’ go home.’ Everyone knows Belafonte's ‘Banana Boat Song’. For several decades following its...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Carta de Amor
This recording captures the celebrated Brazilian singer live in a concert in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 in front of...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Front Line: Sounds of Reality
Despite lasting less than two years, Virgin Records’ Front Line label produced some of the finest roots reggae of the...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Everything Changes
The cover is a photograph of Peggy Seeger: long coat, her back to the camera, banjo case, beside a railway...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Small Town Heroes
With today's excess of foot-stomping banjo players and dressed-up Americana, you could be forgiven for overlooking this New Orleans-based troupe....
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Songs from a Rocking Chair
If old-time, pre-World War II Americana is your thing, then Aaron and Nicole Keim, the husband-and-wife singing duo collectively known...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Childhood Home
In hindsight, it seems like a natural, perhaps inevitable, undertaking. Put the son, a multiple-Grammy-winning, world renowned singer-songwriter and guitarist,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Dawn
Javier Limón, from Madrid, is best known as a flamenco guitarist and producer for the likes of Paco de Lucía...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Far Out Presents: Friends From Rio Project 2014
Far Out are 20 years old this year and to celebrate they are releasing this, a continuation of the two...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
