Reviews
Country Hits Bluegrass Style
Ricky Skaggs is the quintessential crossover artist, as long as you're talking about crossing over the rickety old bridge that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Tigre Qui Pleure
El Gato Negro is as far from Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy Black Cat as you could get. Hiding behind the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2024
Build Something Better
Grace Petrie is a Leicester-born singer-songwriter and musical activist who sounds better, and angrier, with every new album. She started...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
Let's get it out of the way: this is a straightforward, mainstream country album. It's not old-time, it's not bluegrass...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2017
Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico
Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés
On Familia, two Latin jazz pianists pay tribute to two celebrated forefathers of the genre: Bebo Valdés and Chico O'Farrill,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Ballads & Corridos 1949-1975
There are only a handful of truly mythic borders in the world and the Tex-Mex border is one of them....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Conjunto is the music of working class Mexican Americans across the south-west. Los Texmaniacs are four Texan veterans who have...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Now & Then (Box Set)
Now here’s a brilliant bumper box set. It contains CDs of 12 Sharon Shannon studio albums, including a brand new...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/February/2024
Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959
This four-disc set of Paul Bowles’ recordings in Morocco in 1959 reproduces – with eight additional pieces – the original...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
Forgive Us For
After more than 50 years, Kronos Quartet are still presenting more thought-provoking music than any other string quartet in the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2026
