Reviews
Homegrown
As legacies go, they don’t get much weightier than that of folk icon Woody Guthrie. Homegrown, the latest album by...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Ego
This international collective formed 15 years ago in Brussels to explore their Afro-Colombian roots and fuse traditional rhythms with the...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
La Belleza
This ambitious record from singer Pimienta, originally from the Colombian Caribbean and now living in Canada, stems from her desire...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture from the Colombian Caribbean
“Sundays in Cartagena,” says cultural theorist, curator and DJ Edna Martinez, “have their rituals.” For decades, she has been going...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Kuarup: Guardian of Brazil’s Musical Soul
Is this comprehensive 25-track collection a compilation or a playlist? I’m not entirely sure, but it goes some way to...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Old Time Fantasias
Tennessee-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Allred is probably best known for his work as a solo musician, his earlier offerings...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Counterclockwise
Long-running Californian folkers Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl have delivered an epic and ambitious slice of weird Wicca folk with...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Cowboy Sutra
In Cowboy Sutra, Hal Cannon, a specialist in early Utah folk music and a founding member of 3hattrio, mines the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
New World, Lonely Ride
Michael Grigoni & Pan•American
New World, Lonely Ride is the debut of guitar-centric original music by Michael Grigoni & Pan•American. Drawing on elements of...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
No New Summers
Deceptively, No New Summers opens with ‘No Spring Chicken’ – five minutes of solo American primitive John Fahey-style guitar. The...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
