Reviews
Middle of Everywhere
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Pokey LaFarge as just another retro poseur, zoot-suiting his way onto...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Ballads and Songs from the Appalachians
Hedy West is perhaps best remembered today as composer of the folk standard ‘500 Miles’ – a song that she...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Pelao
There's something oddly familiar about the cover of this album – it's the sort of out-there artwork that only Belgian's...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Country Hits Bluegrass Style
Ricky Skaggs is the quintessential crossover artist, as long as you're talking about crossing over the rickety old bridge that...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Rodar
Colombian musician Velasierra has created an inspiring set of pieces, fusing traditional sensibility with an engagingly mature contemporary vision. Based...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Brothers of Brazil
Bossa nova never really dies, it just gets repackaged – if never quite like this. While Nouvelle Vague applied the...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
La Habana era una Fiesta: Original Recordings From the Golden Age of Cuban Radio
Spain may have lost Cuba as a colony in 1898 but strong ties remained between the two nations and this...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
2 Times Revolution
The Sicilian-born but Jamaican-based singjay and multi– instrumentalist Alberto ‘Alborosie’ D'Ascola first came to attention with a series of rootsy...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
In the midst of all the countrified wannabes, rockabilly has-beens and nouveau string bands running around, Old Sledge are the...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Bulevar 2000
Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible
When the Tijuana DJs and musicians Ramón Amezcua (aka Bostich) and Pepe Mogt (aka Fussible) presented this album at the...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
