Reviews
Wary + Strange
As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Remezcla/Pe
Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
City of Mirrors
Dos Santos are based in Chicago, but as the five-piece's surnames/nicknames – Chavez, Villarreal, ‘Maestro’ Vale, Garza, Karagianis – indicate,...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
The Lucky Ones
Hailing from the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada, The Lucky Ones took their name from Alistair MacLeod's...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
My Bluegrass Heart
Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Chimney Swifts
Brad Kolodner's solo debut album, Chimney Swifts, is a splendid introduction to contemporary clawhammer banjo music. Kolodner's playing and choice...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
The Faux Paws
With a sound soaked in the contra dance and bluegrass tradition, The Faux Paws (brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand and...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Paz en la Tierra
Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna
Musically, this is the most conventional album of Meridian Brothers main-man Eblis Álvarez's career. Colombia's traditional music has always been...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
