Reviews
More Than One
From the very beginning of this album it is apparent that we are dealing with musicians as equally well-versed in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
One and All
For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Ethiopiques Vol 26
Mahmoud Ahmed & The Imperial Bodyguard Band
This latest release in the long running Éthiopiques series is very much a game of two halves. The opening five...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Studio One Rocksteady 2
Soul Jazz’s second excursion into the vaults of Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One productions searches for the blissful sounds of the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2017
Man No Die
Bola Johnson has been one of the finds in the recent plethora of re c ent Nigerian highlife/Afro-funk archive reissues....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
One Love, One Life
Despite being an unremarkable figure during reggae's golden era in the 70s, Beres Hammond has created a contemporary two-disc album...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2013
One Night String Band Vol One
Old Spot, Jeri Foreman & Ruth Eliza
The story of how One Night String Band came together is worth recounting. Because of gig conflicts, two old-time duos...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
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Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
This album is a new venture for Cape Breton fiddle supremo Natalie MacMaster, in two respects. First, she has recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs
In these pages last year (#120) I reviewed Greg Vandy's book 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
You Will Never Die!
Clarinettist Yom's second project with his band The Wonder Rabbis comes seven years after the first one. In between, he's...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
