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Review of City of Gold

City of Gold

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle and producer/dobro guitar maestro Jerry Douglas have accomplished their self-appointed mission, which was to...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh

Yale Strom & Pstromi

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Recorded live in the Shakh Synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic, The Wolf and the Lamb is a klezmer album that...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Grass Roots

Grass Roots

Leftover Salmon

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

What do you get when you mix together musicians from Left Hand String Band and The Salmon Heads? Leftover Salmon,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Anarchist Gospel

Anarchist Gospel

Sunny War

Top of the World

New West Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title of Sunny War's fourth album, Anarchist Gospel, gets to the bones of the singer-songwriter's guerilla art. Until recently,...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Hawksworth

Hawksworth

Matt Espy

Drag City

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps best known as the tub-thumper responsible for the awkward, stumbling funk of art rock weirdos Dead Rider, Matt Espy...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Feast of Wire

Feast of Wire

Calexico

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★

In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Corazones and Canciones

Corazones and Canciones

La Marisoul & Los Texmaniacs

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Confidently stating Mexican-American music's place within the American Roots tradition, singer La Marisoul has joined with Tejano conjunto Los Texmaniacs...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Relicário: João Gilberto (ao vivo no Sesc 1998)

Relicário: João Gilberto (ao vivo no Sesc 1998)

João Gilberto

SESC

Rating: ★★★★★

Caetano Veloso famously recorded a heartfelt song, ‘Pra Ninguém’, in tribute to his Brazilian music heroes. The song names these...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Blazing/Freezing

Blazing/Freezing

Astroturf Noise

577 Records

Rating: ★★★

This impish New York trio venerate the innovations of Bill Monroe while simultaneously shattering the music he pioneered into tiny...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Celebrants

Celebrants

Nickel Creek

Top of the World

Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★★

‘My God it's good to see you,’ intones Chris Thile on the opening track of Celebrants, the first all-new album...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

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