There is a temptation for top-level bluegrass musicians to make pretentious, over-complicated fusion albums. This is not one of those....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2020
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
From their beginnings as an enjoyable, slightly quirky, folk-inflected early music band, Horses Brawl have developed into a very different...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2012
The latest from Buda Musique is a vital instalment from the seemingly limitless supply of Ethiopian music from yesteryear. Ali...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: July/2013
It's not hard to spot that ABUC is Cuba spelt backwards, and on this album, pianist Roberto Fonseca takes the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016
Foreman is the founder of the Glasgow Old Time Session who has taken her old-time fiddle music around the world,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2025
Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada plays a host of instruments, but says she most often opts for the Venezuelan cuatro guitar,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2022
This is the first recording from guitarist Marcus Corbett, who has been active on both the British folk and Indian...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2013
Purbayan Chatterjee & Rakesh Chaurasia
It is barely nine months since Chatterjee earned a three-page feature in Songlines (December 2021, #173) for his splendid album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Six years ago the talented young Scottish fiddler Ryan Young released an acclaimed debut album but then suffered an injury...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
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