Reviews
Safe Passage
Fresh out of touring as bandleader for Pimps of Joytime, and a collaboration with CedricBurnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J explores instrumental...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: January/2021
Anthology of Kurdish Hymns
This album is more interesting for the repertoire than for its music. Kalan has always prided itself in releasing recordings...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2013
Spirituals & Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast
The Gullah communities of the Georgia coast in the southern US first won interest when the pioneering folklorists Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2017
Riddle Songs
We know from poems such as Beowulf, which mentions warriors singing praise songs, and Caedmon's ‘Hymn’, a divine inspired song,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2021
Pa mi Gente
As the nephew of the celebrated guitarist Manuel Fernández Molina, better known in flamenco circles as Parrilla de Jerez, Manuel...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2015
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
Anticipation
Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: May/2021
The Rough Guide to Cajun & Zydeco
Compiler Herman Fuselier – a writer and broadcaster in Opelousas, Louisiana – states that not one of the artists on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Djely Blues
One of the world's consummate guitarists with a touch, phrasing, rhythmic swing and fluidity to rival any rock’n’roll axe hero...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
The Rough Guide to the Music of Palestine
Less than 20 years ago, a representative of the Palestinian National Authority in London warned me that “there wasn't much...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2014
