Reviews
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
This two-CD compilation broadens the historical scope of the American folk revival of the 1960s to include the San Francisco...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo y los Alaracosos
Ten years after their debut, Peru’s Los Chapillacs are back, and their sound has hardly changed. Which is a great...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
The Capitol Session ’73
After being unceremoniously dumped from their opening slot on a Sly and the Family Stone tour, Bob Marley and the...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute
The cloud of mystery around the Hopi long flute has been an inspiration for veteran flautist Gary Stroutsos for a...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
80 Anos
It’s not every day you get semi-legendary Beastie Boys producer/collaborator Mario Caldato Jr digging up a long-lost Afro-Brazilian ensemble from...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Se Quema el Mundo
LPT are a ten-piece Afro-Cuban band out of Jacksonville, Florida whose 2018 debut album, Sin Parar, won a clutch of...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Golden Loam
Using fingerstyle electric guitar and lap steel, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist Premo plumbs layers of harmonic ambience, granular textural effects and the...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Day by Day
At 83 years old, Blake is poised to take his place in the Americana pantheon. In the 1960s he made...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
