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Review of Safe, Sensible and Sane

Safe, Sensible and Sane

Steve Martin & Alison Brown

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

Despite both having won pretty much every award going for the banjo, Steve Martin and Alison Brown have never collaborated...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026

Review of Safe Passage

Safe Passage

Gitkin

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★

Fresh out of touring as bandleader for Pimps of Joytime, and a collaboration with CedricBurnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J explores instrumental...

Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: January/2021

Review of Edu Na Ka Vou

Edu Na Ka Vou

Vou

voufiji.com

Rating: ★★★

Founded in 2007 as a contemporary dance company, the ambitious group Vou (meaning ‘new’ in Fijian) have now attempted to...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011

Review of Last

Last

The Unthanks

RabbleRouser Music/EMI

Rating: ★★★

Last begins with ‘Gan to the Kye’, a Northumbrian complaint about the local men taken by rebels, leaving only the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of And it Was Good

And it Was Good

The Andrew Collins Trio

Andrew Collins Trio

Rating: ★★★★

While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017

Review of Na Estrada

Na Estrada

Bel Air de Forro

Madame Bobage

Rating: ★★★

Bel Air de Forro are a new France-based outfit, a trio of Brazilian singer Mariana Caetano, fellow Brazilian Marcelo Costa...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Safe in Sound

Safe in Sound

Daryl Shawn

Dimed

Rating: ★★★

Safe in Sound is the fifth album in a long-established series of self-releases by the solo acoustic guitarist Daryl Shawn,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Last of the Outlaws

Last of the Outlaws

Railroad Earth

Black Bear Records

Rating: ★★★

Railroad Earth balance a studious approach to Americana, which generates tuneful passages and thoughtful songs, with a “Worry? What, us?”...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Nó Na Orelha

Nó Na Orelha

Criolo

Top of the World

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Since Nó Na Orelha was released in Brazil last year, the São Paulo rapper Criolo has become one of the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Last Mile Home

Last Mile Home

Jon Boden

Top of the World

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

The final entry in Boden’s ‘post-oil’ trilogy is an acoustic and spare iteration of his apocalyptic themes, set against the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021

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