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Review of Back to Sustain

Back to Sustain

The Pine Hearts

The Pine Hearts

Rating: ★★★

Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020

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 Encantações

Encantações

Renata Rosa

Top of the World

Hélico Records

Rating: ★★★★

Brazilian music has shown for some time a spectacular porousness and a seeming ease in introducing traditional forms to modern...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2017

Review of Fatou

Fatou

Fatoumata Diawara

Top of the World

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★

Just when you thought Mali couldn't possibly produce any more extraordinary new musical stars, here's another. Born in the Ivory...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: October/2011

Review of The Complete John Kirkpatrick Band

The Complete John Kirkpatrick Band

John Kirkpatrick Band

Fledg’ling Records (2 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★★

The great accordion player John Kirkpatrick played on the album Morris On; he worked with the Albion Band onthe famous...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2013

Review of Volume II

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers

Rating: ★★★★

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022

Review of The New Adventures of Jassi Sidhu

The New Adventures of Jassi Sidhu

Jassi Sidhu

Moviebox

Rating: ★★★

This is a re-release of Sidhu's third solo album, originally released in 2008. He came to fame as part of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2011

Review of The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014

Review of In My Own Time

In My Own Time

Karen Dalton

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★★

Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of Another Man's Ground

Another Man's Ground

The Young’uns

Hereteu Records

Rating: ★★★★

The fourth studio album from the Teesside folk trio is their very own War and Peace. With an epic sweep...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2015

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