Reviews
From Bamako to Carencro
BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet
BeauSoleil helped kick-start fresh interest in Cajun music back in the early 80s – this group of youngish Cajuns stripped...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Ya Tengo lo Que Queria!
Ya Tengo lo Que Quería! doesn’t sound like an album made in London. In that sense it’s great evidence of...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Long Gone Out West Blues
Long Gone Out West Blues is a worthy sequel to Pharis and Jason Romero’s first effort, A Passing Glimpse. It...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Hubcap Music
The Californian bluesman’s fifth album doesn’t mess about. Following the sound of an engine revving up, opening track ‘Down on...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Tudo
The artist formerly known as Joyce has been recording for over 40 years. Antonio Carlos Jobim has called her ‘one...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Tombstone
The Hot 8 Brass Band have made a huge impact in the UK over the last six months. Towards the...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Revelers
High above the swamp of recent recordings by Cajun and zydeco artists, sits The Revelers’ self-produced, debut album, thanks to...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Quatro: The Definitive Collection
Four discs from Tito Puente’s time with RCA in the 50s, a bonus disc of outtakes and unreleased tracks, digital...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Knock Knock Get Up
These days the indie-folk gimmick is so over-used that it's easy to dismiss any band that daims to have folk/roots...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Bright Sunny South
And now for something completely and compellingly different. Sam Amidon is an extraordinarily creative musician, a London-based Vermont native and...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
