Reviews
Folk Awards 2010
Folk is a music built for hard times. So it’s entirely fitting that Show of Hands’ protest at recent outrages...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Todo Transito
Just once in a while an album arrives in unexpected fashion and you hear a new original voice. It’s rare...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010
Exiles Return
The Waterford singer with crystalline tones, Karan Casey, and the Dublin guitar maestro John Doyle both made names for themselves...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2010
Blue Eyed Black Boy
The debut album of this New York–based trio was one of the most innovative releases of 2005 (even if it...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Hind Wheels of Bad Luck
In an era in which female folk voices are either breathy and virginal or histrionic and attention-seeking, Cath Tyler’s voice...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
La Différence
Salif Keita’s record company are claiming La Différence is the ‘third chapter of an acoustic trilogy’, following his two wonderful...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
Mark The Hard Earth
Kris Drever is a man of many talents: one part of Anglo–Scots powerhouse Lau, one part of Drever McCusker Woomble,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Prophet
In the 80 years since his death, Khalil Gibran’s slender book The Prophet has become one of most widely read...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2010
Ankomst
A prize–winning folk fiddler, Gjermund Larsen is a top–notch musician and can clearly do whatever he wants to on the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
