Reviews
Reassembled
Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
With this latest entry in his Adventure Music catalogue, mandolin maestro Mike Marshall and the renowned Turtle Island Quartet have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014
Smoke & Oakum
Scottish postman Nathan Evans was the ‘Wellerman’ who kicked off TikTok’s shanty craze, but Bristol’s Longest Johns are not far...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2022
Esteesee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Two Wolves
Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock
Marry Waterson is an intriguingly contradictory artist. Her singing is restrained, almost shy, and at the same time intense and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2016
Òmònílè, Son of the Soil
Singer, composer, guitarist and violinist Atàndá’s Òmònílè, Son of the Soil combines familiar elements of Afrobeat with sophisticated arrangements that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2024
Sabaru
Sekou is the son of Guinean kora player M’Bady Kouyaté, but takes tradition further, using amplification and effects pedals. He...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2015
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020
The Living Room Sessions Part 2
This is the eagerly awaited second volume of the outstanding Living Room Sessions, the first of which won the legendary...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2013
The Voice of the People: The Barley Mow
Topic Records released the Voice of the People series – 20 CDs and about 500 recordings of traditional songs and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
