Reviews
Beginner’s Guide to Cumbia
Cumbia is one o f Colombia’s greatest exports, spreading like wildfire throughout the Americas from the 1960s onwards. Back in...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust &Contempt from the 1920s &1930s
Thanks to dedicated researchers like Art Rosenbaum and ardent collectors like John Heneghan, a New York-based musician whose precious library...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Black &White: Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum
In 2007 and 2009, Dust to D igital released volumes one and two of Art of the Field Recording by...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Laru Beya
The influence of the late Andy Palacio runs through these dozen songs and for Aurelio Martinez, a guitarist, singer-songwriter and...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Remixed
Luisa Maita debuted last year with the delicious Lero Lero, an album which this publication described as ‘dreamy an d...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Mi Corazón
Jazz woodwind, accordion and trickling percussion are the backdrop that Austrian singer Katja Cruz (real name Katja Krusche) chooses to...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Some Strange Country
Crooked Still, the most exciting bluegrass bandcurrently on the American scene, are a groupof five who met at the music...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Crown Prince of Reggae: Singles (1972-1985)
The much-loved Dennis Brown (1957– 1999) was the outstanding solo reggae singer of his generation, his only rival being the...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Slow Music
On this album of gentle dinner jazz crooning, Joyce gathers together a selection of session musician stalwarts who include many...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
City of Refuge
Though she’s a recent addition to their catalogue, Rounder Records could present banjoist, vocalist, and songwriter Abigail Washburn as an...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
