Reviews

Sonorous Present

Alex E Chávez

Grammy-winning Quetzal Flores likes ‘working with talented people,’ so answered the call of this author, educator and member of Latinx...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Goldenwings

Opa

In #197, I reviewed a reissue of Opa’s abortive first album. With Airto Moreira, the Uruguayan Fattoruso brothers re-recorded for...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Still + Bright

Amythyst Kiah

Tennessee singer, guitarist, banjo player and songwriter Amythyst Kiah has come a long way from her early roots singing Appalachian...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Twisted Sage

Kenny Kosek with Tony Trischka

Here’s a recipe for a great old-time fiddle and banjo album: first, learn a bunch of tunes as a teenager...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Ubalafon

Gil Felix

Hailing from Salvador de Bahía, Felix takes elements of bossa nova, samba, reggae, Afrobeat and more to mould them smartly...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Going

Bobby Marin

‘Dig it, baby, dig it!’ Profound, this ain’t – but groovy it sure is. Focusing on a golden era of...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

symbiont

Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin

On Spider Tales, his 2020 debut album, Jake Blount blazed a trail through the forest of roots music in general...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Odisseia Tropical

Drumagick

Maybe the nights are drawing in, but this album will bring the sun back and put a spring in your...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Dance of Love

Tucker Zimmerman

Born in 1941 in San Francisco, Belgium-based folk singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman is a child of the 60s. Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, draft-dodging...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Canciones en Blanco y Negro

Juana Luna

For those who have chosen to train their soul in such a way, folklore in Argentina is ever-present. Whether in...

Reviewed in issue December/2024