Reviews
Cluck O1’ Hen
The odd yet amazing thing about this album is the presence of the piano in a standard strings-and-things bluegrass band....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
One More for the Road
The Wiyos continue to surf a wave of popular acclaim, thanks to a 2009 appearance on the BBC documentary Folk...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds
Rayna Gellert’s great-grandfather was a Hungarian-born orchestral violinist whose career path led to a gig on a transatlantic cruise ship...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Roll Me, Tumble Me
The Deadly Gentlemen sport a thoroughbred bluegrass line-up of guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and double bass, and are fronted by...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Gone Away Backward
There should be a special award for this kind of high-level deployment of a musical ensemble. Fulks, a skilled acoustic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
