Reviews
Laugh, Dance & Sing
Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys
You’ve got to love fiddler Gordie MacKeeman. In his recent video for the ‘Barbershop Sessions’ on YouTube, he takes you...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2016
Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)
Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
This album chronicles the only existing complete concert performance by the inestimably important American folk musician during the period in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Systema Solar
Colombia continues to be one of the most exciting music-producing nations in Latin America. The birthplace of cumbia, the country...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Apr/May/2011
Simple Pleasures
Pioneering banjo player, composer, and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue:
El Viaje
What a lovely album this is: a work of fluid yet inventive piano compositions rooted in classical, nodding to jazz...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2016
Journey Through Time
On the one hand it's perhaps difficult to see quite why the world needs another Afrobeat band, replicating the 1970s...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2011
Time to Fly
The debut duo album from RURA's flautist David Foley and fiddler Jack Smedley is a beautiful, evocative and well-cra.ed release....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2020
De Tierra y Oro
Know how to hum a huayno, a lando, a saya? Sofia Rei does. Born in Argentina and resident in New...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2013
Drift
Nashville bluegrass banjo stalwart Wes Corbett’s new album, Drift, is surprisingly spectacular. A member of the Sam Bush Band, Corbett...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: January/2026
