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Review of Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Hart

Roebuck Records

Rating: ★★★★

The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2022

Review of An Introduction to Norma Waterson

An Introduction to Norma Waterson

Norma Waterson

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

The last song on this album is ‘Bunch of Tyme’ from the 2010's Gift that Waterson made with her daughter...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2018

Review of Mély

Mély

Rozsdamaró

Fonó

Rating: ★★★

Rozsdamaró are, in terms of the Hungarian folk revival, relative newcomers but committed traditionalists; that is to say that they...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2020

Review of Weighted Mind

Weighted Mind

Sierra Hull

Top of the World

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★★

The last time Sierra Hull released an album, the mandolin prodigy and protégé of Alison Krauss was only a year...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2016

Review of Across the Divide

Across the Divide

Chris Quinn

Rhythm & Roots

Rating: ★★★

Constant international touring for the last decade, including a stint opening for The Jools Holland Orchestra, as well as playing...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2016

Review of I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny

Island Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

Mick Houghton and Andrew Blatt deserve much credit for conceiving and compiling this set – and for unearthing previously unheard...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Live in Vienna

Live in Vienna

The Dublin Legends

Blue Groove

Rating: ★★★★

The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2014

Review of Core [Coração]

Core [Coração]

Maria Pia de Vito

Jando Music

Rating: ★★★

There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2017

Review of 21

21

HILA

Underdog Records

Rating: ★★★★

HILA (Hay/High in Los Angeles) is the brainchild of Armenian cellist Artyom Manukyan and Armenian-American producer Dawatile. Their debut album...

Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: June/2020

Review of MinYo Songbook Vol 1

MinYo Songbook Vol 1

Tokyo MinYo Club

Ohayashi Record

Rating: ★★★★

Many cultures around the world have taken forms of their own folk songs and reinterpreted them in a more mainstream...

Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: May/2023

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