Reviews
Keys
What a magical mix of thrumming and twanging strings, imaginative songwriting and improvisational prowess is Keys, the debut album by...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Pachanga Time
With its gorgeous retro cover art and deliberate golden-age smarts Side A was recorded using ribbon microphone technology –...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Cera Perdida
Since their inception a decade ago, Bogotá-based Colombian cumbia pioneers Frente Cumbiero have been a force to be reckoned with....
Reviewed in issue May/2021
The King of Ramps (The Music of Melvin Wine)
Old-time fiddler and banjo player Ben Townsend pays homage to a revered master of West Virginia fiddling, Melvin Wine, on...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
First Farewell
This is a remarkable album by a singersongwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and writer who grows more impressive as the years go...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Fall Like Rain
From the opening title-track, a brilliantly rendered bluegrass cover of Eric Clapton’s song from his 1998 LP Pilgrim, to the...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Anticipation
Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
A Pegada Agora é Essa
This exciting project from multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Antonio Neves asks a simple question: what’s the sound of Rio today? Rather...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Kagabas
Just when you weren’t waiting for a steaming chiva bus up to the mountains of the Colombian coast, along come...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Long Violent History
In September, with no pre-release fanfare, vaunted country/bluegrass singer-songwriter Tyler Childers released his fourth album, Long Violent History, accompanied by...
Reviewed in issue April/2021
