Reviews
Cluck O1’ Hen
The odd yet amazing thing about this album is the presence of the piano in a standard strings-and-things bluegrass band....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
One More for the Road
The Wiyos continue to surf a wave of popular acclaim, thanks to a 2009 appearance on the BBC documentary Folk...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds
Rayna Gellert’s great-grandfather was a Hungarian-born orchestral violinist whose career path led to a gig on a transatlantic cruise ship...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Sailing Over the 7th String
You’ll probably be familiar with multi¬instrumentalist Tim Edey from his triumph at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Titina Canta B Leza
With reissues of long-deleted Cape Verdean albums being about as rare as Cape Verdean cloud bursts, Astral Music in conjunction...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Nile Project: Aswan
In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Roll Me, Tumble Me
The Deadly Gentlemen sport a thoroughbred bluegrass line-up of guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and double bass, and are fronted by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
