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Review of Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017

Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017

VARIOUS ARTISTS

JSP Records

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation is an amazing and expansive labour of love that traces the journey of country music from the very...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Goats

Goats

Xylouris White

Other Music Recording Company

Rating: ★★★★

The lute player George Xylouris grew up in Anogia, a town in the mountains of Crete not too far from...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Guitar Tango: Más Allá

Guitar Tango: Más Allá

Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mentored by the late bandoneón player and songwriter Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer Martín Alvarado has been plying his plaintive, precisely...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of 1970-1987

1970-1987

Ry Cooder

Rhino/Warner

Rating: ★★★★★

If you ever wondered how Cooder morphed from 1960s session guitarist for The Rolling Stones and The Monkees into the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Together in Love and Separation

Together in Love and Separation

Chandra Chakraborty & Saskia Griffiths-Moore

Chandra Chakraborty & Saskia Griffiths-Moore

Rating: ★★

Indian classical singer Chandra Chakraborty is joined by London-based singer Saskia Griffiths-Moore in an album that explore themes of love...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Carry Me Home

Carry Me Home

The Dustbowl Revival

Dustbowl Revival

Rating: ★★★

The theatrical and often comical approach to their kaleidoscope of Americana makes you want to see how The Dustbowl Revival...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Átimo

Átimo

Ian Lasserre

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

There has been an intriguing Sweden-Salvador, Brazil connection establishing itself of late, with Swedish producer Sebastian Notini working with Tiganá...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020

Review of Essence of Duality

Essence of Duality

Hindol Deb

Hindol Deb

Rating: ★★★

When it comes to world fusion music revolving around Hindustani classical music, a template was set in stone by Shakti....

Reviewed by Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri in issue: May/2022

Review of Going Home

Going Home

Joe Newberry & April Verch

Slab Town Records

Rating: ★★★★

Since her debut in 2000, Canadian fiddler April Verch has sounded ever more confident both at soloing and at supporting...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: December/2017

Review of Kenya: The Obokano, Lyre of the Gusii

Kenya: The Obokano, Lyre of the Gusii

VARIOUS ARTISTS

AIMP

Rating: ★★★

The area of north-east Africa, between the Nile and the Indian Ocean, is a heartland of lyres - from the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014

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