Reviews
Mousehold
Led by Georgia Shackleton on fiddle and vocals, with Nic Zuppardi on mandolin and Aaren Bennett on guitar, the East...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Fine Bloom
Free the Honey is a quartet that plies its trade with a tight-knit, nearly telepathic ease. Jenny Hill (vocals, fiddle,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Potions and Poison
The opening track here sets a precedent for the remaining nine original songs on the fourth album by the Colorado-based...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Gil Brenton
Seventies folk provides the throbbing heart of the mighty Magpie Arc’s second full-length album, Gil Brenton. The title-track opens with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: February/March/2026
The Rough Guide to the Roots of Gospel
In the early days of popular recording, blues and gospel marched hand in hand – God’s music and the devil’s...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know
Full disclosure: your reviewer fully anticipated not raving about this album. While appreciating Rising Appalachia’s raison dêtre, my ears have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa
This latest update to the Rough Guide series of explorations of West African music serves as a useful reminder of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2017
The Series of Music for Young Adults: Iranian Folk Songs
Originally released in 1976 by Iran's Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults as part of a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2023
Poyln: A Gilgul
Although there's been a great revival of klezmer and Jewish music in the former Eastern Bloc, it's still American musicians...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
Zoona Malawi
As Gasper Nali hoists his ten-foot, homemade babatoni, we clearly have a candidate for unusual instrument of the month: it...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
