Reviews
Viens Me Chercher
In the 1940s, Cajun music had descended into a jumble of English language, Western swing-influenced fiddle stringband, a far cry...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book
Growing up in West Virginia in the 1930s and 40s, this singer-songwriter, while listening to the likes of Merle Haggard...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
El Tiempo Quiere Cantar
Anthropology and experimentation combine on this release by Peruvian musician-researchers Dimitri Manga Chávez and Ricardo López Alcas, who “explore the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
SEAUXLEAUX
What more can you say about an artist who has all-out mastered his instrument (the fiddle) and taken home two...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Another Place
When Pachyman (Pachy García) left San Juan for Los Angeles back in the day, he carried a love of dub...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Bayou Moonlight
Jeffery Broussard & The Nighttime Syndicate
From the second that Bayou Moonlight’s opening track, ‘Whatever’, hits you, it’s readily apparent that you’re in for a wild,...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
The Lone Wild Bird
Will Holshouser is an accordion player enjoying an eclectic career in New York, playing with, for instance, New York City...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Maravilhosamente Bem
The revival of interest in global 80s music continues with the nostalgic third album by Brazilian singer-songwriter and Bala Desejo...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Room on the Porch
American blues giants Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ first collaborated eight years ago on an album called TajMo, their combined...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Inconcreto & Asociados
Colombia’s pioneering Frente Cumbiero are proud tropicanibalismos, a radical, evolutionary outfit dedicated to preserving the traditional cumbia and porro rhythms...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
