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Review of Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Chìsake

Chìsake

Timothy Archambault

Ideologic Organ

Rating: ★★★★

Timothy Archambault is an indigenous flautist and composer, member of the Kichesipirini Algonquin First Nation. He is one of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Alma Vieja

Alma Vieja

Los Tangueros del Oeste

Avantango Records

Rating: ★

Founded by American bassist and composer Sascha Jacobsen, Los Tangueros del Oeste is a collective venture that appears to aspire...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Con Sentimiento

Con Sentimiento

Noslen Noel

Cugate Clásicos Latinos

Rating: ★★★

Born in just 2002 in Güines (just south of Havana), Noslen Noel has already made a name for himself as...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

With Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Alabama-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter-guitarist and occasional banjo luthier Joshua Press (JP) Harris celebrates a...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Acid Folk

Acid Folk

Yonder Boys

Blue Whale Records

Rating: ★★★

Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Places of Consequence

Places of Consequence

Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter

American Dream Records

Rating: ★★★★

Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Leaving None but Small Birds

Leaving None but Small Birds

The Body & BIG BRAVE

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★★★

This is an exciting collaboration from two heavy rock bands exploring traditional music on an album that very much pushes...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Portas

Portas

Marisa Monte

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

A four-time Latin Grammy winner, Brazilian Marisa Monte returns with her first solo studio album in over ten years. Portas...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of La Imagen en Silencio

La Imagen en Silencio

Nacho Eguía

Eguía

Rating: ★★

Buenos Aires has strained connections with its hinterlands; beyond them, provincial Argentina has more in common with Bolivia or Mongolia...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

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