Reviews

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

Sturgill Simpson

Explaining The Ballad of Dood & Juanita to an interviewer, Sturgill Simpson offered, ‘I’ve only ever really been interested in...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Timber

Bryan Rahija

Add Bryan Rahija to the ranks of superb fingerstyle guitar pickers from the Piedmont region – Durham, North Carolina, to...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Palenque Rockers Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bogota’s Palenque Records was founded in 1996 by Lucas Silva of Faraon Bantu sound system, alias DJ Champeta-Man, to showcase...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

The Paths of Pain: The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68

VARIOUS ARTISTS

London record shop/label Honest Jon’s is never short of rare musical treasure and what a treat they have served up...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

El Alimento

Cimafunk

Medical student turned padrino del funk, Cimafunk has been one of the hottest names in Cuban music since releasing his...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Máscaras

Mas Aya

Mas Aya, aka Brandon Valdivia, is a Toronto-based Canadian-Nicaraguan producer and multi-instrumentalist known in that city for his work with...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Wary + Strange

Amythyst Kiah

As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Remezcla/Pe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition

Buena Vista Social Club

Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

City of Mirrors

Dos Santos

Dos Santos are based in Chicago, but as the five-piece's surnames/nicknames – Chavez, Villarreal, ‘Maestro’ Vale, Garza, Karagianis – indicate,...

Reviewed in issue November/2021