Reviews
Smoke & Oakum
Scottish postman Nathan Evans was the ‘Wellerman’ who kicked off TikTok’s shanty craze, but Bristol’s Longest Johns are not far...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2022
Bold Champions
The second album from the trio, following 2015's Wing of Evening, Bold Champions is another strong set of traditional songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2019
Angelina
The Bulgarian Voices Angelite, one of the more successful splinter groups formed from the ashes of the once lavishly funded...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Bon Bon
Somewhere in the polyglot roots garden, twined between Cajun, indie-folk, R&B, Gypsy jazz and a few other things, reside Dai...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
La Vie de Riley
They say, ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’ At the home of Cajun accordionist, fiddler and songwriter Steve Riley...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2022
King of Highlife Anthology
This is the largest compilation of recordings by ET Mensah that anyone has ever seen. It means that, perhaps for...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Apr/May/2015
No 2 Greepe
This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014
Cabinet of Curiosities
As amiable and unpretentious as they are hugely talented and entertaining, The Hut People are accordionist Sam Pirt and percussionist...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Night Prayer
The brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are leading names in the art of dhrupad, an ancient pure classical song style...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012
Remains to Be Scene
Not every bluegrass album starts with a cover of Ray Davies’ ‘Last of the Steam-Powered Trains’. But that’s part of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
