Reviews
Mount Royal
Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
What to call the music played by the two guitar virtuosos Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge? Chamber-folk? Jazz? Alt-Americana? What...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Louisiana Stomp: 1954-1960 Recordings
Clifton Chenier is one of those rare musicians who pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music – zydeco....
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Jongando
The last time we had heard of Brazilian singer Catia Werneck she was following a common path within the country's...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Where the River Meets the Road
Classic country and bluegrass fans – folks who revere Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs and the...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Songs from Mexico
It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs
In these pages last year (#120) I reviewed Greg Vandy's book 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
An unsung hero of the counterculture from the 1960s and early 70s, Bruce Langhorne is finally getting some much-deserved attention...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Días Felices
No wonder artists and dreamers gravitate to the American south-west in search of landscapes, inspiration and spirit-reviving experiences. For all...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
