Reviews
Chicago Barn Dance
It's safe to say that every country music fan has heard of the Grand Ole Opry. What few people know...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020
I Would Not Live Always
I Would Not Live Always opens with a brief burst of burbling electronics before the traditional ballad ‘Lovely Joan’ weighs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard
Alexander Fedoriouk is a Ukrainian cimbalom player, currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Eastern...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2021
Raised by Wolves
Bright Mainland was the 2013 solo debut from this Canadian singer and songwriter, following many years of playing accordion for...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2015
Music from Turkey
Various Artists/Sameyda Ensemble
This CD reissues two albums: a collection of field recordings by Indian ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya, issued as Turkisk Musik in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Sound of Latin New York
It would seem that Strut's summertime Salsa Explosion (reviewed in Songlines #72) was really just a starter for this, more...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2011
The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
World music has woken up to the wondrous delights of Somali music over the past few years through reissues of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Ballads and Songs from the Appalachians
Hedy West is perhaps best remembered today as composer of the folk standard ‘500 Miles’ – a song that she...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Putoo Katare Yire
Back in the days when there were still live gigs, Songlines gave an enthusiastic review to a 2018 London concert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021
Umanyanyatha: Songs from the Soul of Zimbabwe
Born in Zimbabwe but resident in Austria for more than 20 years, Vusa Mkhaya made his name in world music...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
