Reviews
Safari Boots
Safari Boots are a simple trio of guitar, bass and drums performing African guitar music with influences of predominantly Congolese...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Vamo a Gozá
Supported by the Grammy Foundation, Irka Mateo travelled around the Dominican Republic documenting genres, even bringing one, comarca, to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
The Fairest Flower of Womankind
A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2017
I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)
Pianist Pete Rodriguez is one of the pioneers of Nuyorican music – Puerto Rican musicians in New York City –...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
Pratibha
One of 20th century India's truly great musicians, the Bengali sitar player Nikhil Banerjee, had an exceptional grasp of the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
Saigon Supersound Vol 3
This is the third and final volume in the Saigon Supersound series, covering the ‘Golden Era’ of south Vietnamese popular...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: April/2023
Léve Léve: São Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s
São Tomé and Príncipe isn't exactly known as a musical powerhouse nation – Songlines has only ever reviewed one other...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020
Double Dekker
Desmond Dekker (1941-2006) brought Jamaican music to an international audience in a way that no other artist had previously achieved:...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019
Wait For Me
The vinyl LP age may have been a long time ago now, but that doesn't alter the fact that 42...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2012
