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Review of Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien

Top of the World

Howdy Skies

Rating: ★★★★

Both traditionalists and progressively oriented bluegrass fans will cotton to Tim O'Brien's new album. Featuring a seasoned, stripped down, ready-to-kick-tail...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2019

Review of YES

YES

Banter

Mrs Casey Music

Rating: ★★★

You can sometimes tell quite a lot about a band by the company they keep and this trio's biography boasts...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2017

Review of Striding Out

Striding Out

Brown Boots

Brown Boots

Rating: ★★★★

London-based fiddle and melodeon duo Martin Clarke and Will Allen pulled on their Brown Boots and recorded their debut, First...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023

Review of Dawgnilo!

Dawgnilo!

Danilo Brito & David Grisman

Acoustic Disc

Rating: ★★★

Dawgnilo! brings together two mandolin maestros, Brazilian Brito and American Grisman. The latter emerged from the Greenwich Village scene as...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2024

Review of Yeominrok

Yeominrok

E-Do

Pony Canyon

Rating: ★★★

Although ostensibly a fusion outfit, the South Korean quintet E-Do still sound predominantly traditional in their plundering. Two percussionists and...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2016

Review of Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...

Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of The Rough Guide to Unsung Heroes of Country Blues Vol 2

The Rough Guide to Unsung Heroes of Country Blues Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Rough Guides always take a certain pleasure in making sure their CD compilations don’t mimic other albums out there. And...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015

Review of Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros

Green Rock River Band

Hand Clap Records

Rating: ★★★★

In case you haven’t yet heard, the Green Rock River Band are a London-based eight-piece purveying acoustic music infused by...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of The Holy Coming of the Storm

The Holy Coming of the Storm

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West

Morrison & West

Rating: ★★★★

A musical duo that met in Seattle just a year and a half ago, Morrison and West have quickly formed...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2011

Review of Tëd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang

Tëd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang

Ndox Electrique

Les Disques Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★★★★

This album acts as a sequel to Ifriqiyya Electrique’s recordings on Glitterbeat (2017-2019), which involved a collab between Putan Club...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2023

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