Reviews
My Bluegrass Heart
Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Çay Vakti
This charming release features two of Israel’s most highly regarded musicians collaborating to showcase songs from the early years of...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: November/2020
The Treasure Dub Albums Collection
When the gun-slinging ex-cop Duke Reid passed on in 1975, rival producer Sonia Pottinger acquired his legendary Treasure Isle studio...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Quoi D’Autre?
Karima Nayt is an Algerian dancer and singer whose peripatetic CV seems to have taken her to Sweden, where she...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Flaco JimÉnez/Buena Suerte, Señorita
Flaco JimÉnez is, at least in Texas, accordion royalty; his late father and brother are also acknowledged masters of the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Touch of Freedom
Exiled from his native Iran for a song denouncing the Islamic regime, Arya Aramnejad now makes his music in Stockholm....
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2021
Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2018
Sensitive Skin
Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen says, rather surprisingly, that Sensitive Skin is the first album he has made on which...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
The Seer
The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odhar, was a legendary 17th-century Gaelic prophet whose writings are the focus for this moody new...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2017
The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues
Jug bands were one of the phenomenons of 1920s and 30s blues, their members being so poor they literally blew...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
