Reviews
Jaiyede Afro
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014
Everything Changes
The cover is a photograph of Peggy Seeger: long coat, her back to the camera, banjo case, beside a railway...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2014
Small Town Heroes
With today's excess of foot-stomping banjo players and dressed-up Americana, you could be forgiven for overlooking this New Orleans-based troupe....
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: October/2014
The Devil Makes Three
Twelfth Day, comprising Catriona Price on fiddle and vocals and Esther Swift on pedal harp, clarsach harp and vocals, have...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2014
Songs from a Rocking Chair
If old-time, pre-World War II Americana is your thing, then Aaron and Nicole Keim, the husband-and-wife singing duo collectively known...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Childhood Home
In hindsight, it seems like a natural, perhaps inevitable, undertaking. Put the son, a multiple-Grammy-winning, world renowned singer-songwriter and guitarist,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs From Aleppo
When Jason Hamacher, a punk drummer in Washington DC, read William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain, he contacted the author...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
El Vol Dispers
Roots or world music artists who sing in English often met with a certain snobbery in the past, but multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Dot the Dragon's Eyes
The surest vindication of the praise bestowed on Cassel by the Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is the final track of...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Dawn
Javier Limón, from Madrid, is best known as a flamenco guitarist and producer for the likes of Paco de Lucía...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
