Reviews
Golden Boy
Watermelon Slim is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Oklahoma. He's lived a varied life, including serving in the Vietnam...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
In Flow
Irish concertina master Jack Talty here presents his first solo album, a well-considered collection of tunes. Jigs, reels, hornpipes and...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2017
Ryan Young
This hotly tipped, er, young Scottish fiddler has won, and been nominated for a plethora of folk and fiddling awards....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2017
Live in America
Over the last few years, Oumar Konaté has been making his mark on the Mali guitar scene, his guitar-bass-drums trio...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
Durrant y Ledesma
Richard Durrant & Ismael Ledesma
The harp rose to prominence in the monkish missions of southern South America. In Paraguay, where rural society has survived...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
Raivopyörä
Maija Kauhanen has emerged in recent years as a strong new presence on the Finnish folk scene, first as a...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Sweet as Broken Dates is a collection of Somali-language pop recorded in Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti from the 1960s right...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
Bright Phoebus
An aura surrounds Bright Phoebus; this is the legendary, lost masterpiece of modern English folk. The Watersons sang traditional songs...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2017
Reclaim Australia
While it is frequently powerful, contemporary Australian Aboriginal music is usually non-confrontational – a traditional-meets-modern combination full of heartfelt lyrics...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
Azaadi: Freedom
Samia Malik's album is autobiographical, bringing out the personal from the political via a series of original English and Urdu...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2017
