Reviews
Old Salt Union
Three years after forming in 2012, Old Salt Union won the national FreshGrass Band contest, so perhaps it's not so...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2018
A la Manera Artesana
Spanish folk has a quality perfect for our times: the ability to wail, complain and lament and, at the same...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022
Child Ballads
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
There's power in the aoss-traffic of Americans interpreting British traditional music, and vice versa. Bob Dylan's big early songs took...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Togetherings
Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019
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Biguine: The Anthology of Traditional Antillean Music (1930-1954)
This fourth volume of Franco-Caribbean roots and jazz music from excellent archivists Frémeaux excavates a wealth of biguine music, produced...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: December/2016
Despegue
I never thought I'd end up having to reconsider La Chiva Gantiva's debut album as ‘polite’. This is a band...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
