Reviews
The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey
The late Charlie Gillett’s first venture into the music industry involved a trip to Louisiana where he licensed a selection...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Live Wire
Several years ago, the Woody Guthrie official archives were given two spools of wire recordings of a live performance in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
La Samba Contemporain: Samba Recordings by CPC UMES, 1998-2007
‘E bom Cantar’ (It’s time? to sing) is just one of 36 versions of contemporary samba on this dedicated compilation...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Super Nova Samba Funk
Over a decade that’s seen all kinds of obscure and often fantastic Brazilian funk prised from the archives, the band...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
The Wilders
Bluegrass, country, rock‘n’roll, honky-tonk, spit‘n'sawdust story-telling: call it what you like, this four-piece band from Kansas City, Missouri, do it...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits
If the brilliant DJ Shantel had called this My Biggest Fattest Jewish Wedding Ever then it might end up selling...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Dub Revolutionaries
Dub music may have originated in the Caribbean but it has mutated over the decades. When the first waves of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Yalla Yalla!
Rumba flamenco rhythms may be at the base of this endearing instru¬mental recording by Toronto-based Sultans of String, but you’ll...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Chico & Rita
The animated feature film Chico & Rita was released last year to rave reviews. Directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Daybreak
Between Sarah Jarosz and Sierra Hull, there seems to be a surfeit of teenaged mandolin-strumming-singer-songwriter prodigies on the acoustic/bluegrass scene...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
