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Review of Lost & Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion

Lost & Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion

The High Bar Gang

True North Records

Rating: ★★★

Lost & Undone is a bona fide gospel album, graced by songs popularised by legendary country and bluegrass artists and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2014

Review of Receiver

Receiver

The Rheingans Sisters

Top of the World

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★

Receiver begins with a fiddle drone, as if this has been going on already and you have happened upon it....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2020

Review of El Hajar

El Hajar

Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis

Top of the World

Nur

Rating: ★★★★

One of Israel's leading rock stars, Dudu Tassa is the grandson of the celebrated musician Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, whose collaborations with...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2019

Review of Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky

Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky

The Good Ones

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★

Originally performing as a quartet, the Rwandan group The Good Ones have reduced to a duo for their fourth album....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2022

Review of Fathoms

Fathoms

The Furrow Collective

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Each of them is an acclaimed solo artist in their own right, but together, The Furrow Collective continue to be...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Galargan

Galargan

The Gentle Good

Bubblewrap Collective

Rating: ★★★

Cardiff-based songwriter and instrumentalist Gareth Bonello, better known as The Gentle Good, explores the traditional song and folklore of his...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2023

Review of La Pata Coja

La Pata Coja

The Bongo Hop

Underdog Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Bongo Hop are the brainchild of France-based Etienne Sevet, who could be considered part of the new tropical revivalists,...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2025

Review of San Patricio

San Patricio

The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder

Fantasy Records/Concord 0888072313217

Rating: ★★★

Paddy Moloney has long held to the patriotic notion that the roots of just about all the world’s music can...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of On Tour/Reunion

On Tour/Reunion

The Young Ones of Guyana

BBE

Rating: ★★

It's 1965, British Guiana is on the cusp of independence, ready to throw off the corrupt yoke of Albion, and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019

Review of Quelbe!

Quelbe!

Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

A few years after Frémeaux's two-CD compilation Virgin Islands Quelbe and Calypso 1956-60, comes a new release from a contemporary...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: May/2016

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