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Review of Tall Fiddler

Tall Fiddler

Michael Cleveland

Top of the World

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Jump Ups & Jollities

Jump Ups & Jollities

Travis Ward

Travis Ward

Rating: ★★★

‘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

Review of Ruminantia

Ruminantia

Horses Brawl

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ethiopiques 28: Great Oromo Music

Ethiopiques 28: Great Oromo Music

Ali Mohammed Birra

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of ABUC

ABUC

Roberto Fonseca

Top of the World

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★★

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

Review of A Little Wilderness

A Little Wilderness

Jeri Foreman & Ruth Eliza

Scribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Marchita

Marchita

Silvana Estrada

Top of the World

Glassnote Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Strung Deep

Strung Deep

Marcus Corbett

Marco

Rating: ★★

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

Review of Saath Saath

Saath Saath

Purbayan Chatterjee & Rakesh Chaurasia

Believe

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Just a Second

Just a Second

Ryan Young

Ryan Young

Rating: ★★★

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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