Reviews
The Joy of Living
Ewan MacColl wrote the song Jackie Oates has chosen as the title-track of her seventh album when he realised his...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Folk Fever
Unlikely bedfellows they may be, but it transpires that disco and folk conspire to produce a highly satisfying reimagining of...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Botany Bay
This new album of traditional songs from Hertfordshire's Kelly Oliver is produced by Megson's Stuart Hanna, who manages to frame...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Grúňom Hore
What I like about this Slovak band is their total faith in the pastoral culture of their region. Take their...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Lament in a Deep Style
Christopher King is a collector of music from Epirus, the rugged northwestern Greek territory. He has compiled four previous CDs,...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
The Seeds Inside (The Grapes Upon The Vine)
Drawing on old-time Americana and country as well as soaking up influences of traditional English folk music, this South London...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Hummingbird
John Smith's rich and distinctive honeyed, gravelly vocals and deft fingerpicking guitar have featured prominently in folk projects such as...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Muunduja
Many years ago, Songlines used to feature quotations from some of the more preposterous press releases that arrive in the...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
A Problem of Our Kind
Three-time nominees at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) are an impressive...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
