Reviews
Flit
Martin Green is best known as the accordion and electronica genius from Lau, but he's also a bravely experimental soloist....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2016
Turn to Fray
This debut from the Brighton duo of Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti is the latest release from the prolific Sussex...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2019
Cleveland Blues
Fred ‘Dave’ Davis was a musician in Kansas City, Missouri, but by the late 1960s, hard luck and prison had...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2023
Tu Gulî
Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2024
Broadside Ballads Vol III
Canadian band The Deep Dark Woods have been around for years with their own rootsy indie folk, but a lot...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/2024
I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
Co-produced by Joel Savoy and Joshua Clegg Caffery, and based on Caffery's scholarly tome, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2016
What News
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Soprem Bons Ventos
Pedro Ricardo, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer, explains that his debut album represents “an ode to the past, to those...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2023
Songs Doc Didn't Sing
Arthel ‘Doc’ Watson, the legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter from Deep Gap, North Carolina, possessed a uniquely compelling vocal instrument. Smoky...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
