Reviews
Czech Republic: Music from Walachia, Horňácko and Kopanice
Compared to neighbouring Hungary, whose traditional music has an international profile, the folk music of the Czech Republic is little...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond
Forty-year-old Bear Family Records is a German label renowned for digging deeply into the country, blues and rock’n’roll archives, and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Cancionera
We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2025
Nsie Nsie
Y-Bayani & Baby Naa & The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love
Ghanaian singers Y-Bayani and Baby Naa give their spin on African roots reggae on Nsie Nsie. Fusing reggae grooves with...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2020
All Smiles Tonight
We’ve yet to fully metabolise our experiences of the pandemic. We can relive facts of the time, list off the...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: August/2025
Anchor
Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy with The Gift Band
Norma Waterson and her daughter Eliza Carthy have sung together ever since Eliza first grasped language. Perhaps that is one...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2018
Doing Things Right
Jim Kweskin & The Berlin Hall Saturday Night Revue
Younger listeners may recall the name-check of Jim Kweskin by Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
A Loaf of Wax (Live from MOTH Club)
‘Willie’s Lady’ tells the story of a new wife who has more than the usual difficulties with her mother-in-law, who...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: February/March/2026
symbiont
On Spider Tales, his 2020 debut album, Jake Blount blazed a trail through the forest of roots music in general...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024
