TOMMY SANDS Arising From The Troubles Elm Grove Music http://www.tommysands.com The profession of troubadour-peacemaker is a noble one, and nowhere has it proved more challenging, and at long last rewarding, than in Northern Ireland, … Continue reading →
IAN TYSON All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2 Stony Plain 1367 www.stonyplainrecords.com When Ian & Sylvia split up in the early 1970s, Ian shifted from the duo’s northern hillbilly style to become a smooth … Continue reading →
DENNY FREEMAN Diggin’ On Dylan V8 www.dennyfreeman.com Diggin’ On Dylan is kind of a postscript for Denny Freeman’s five years on the road playing guitar in Bob Dylan’s road band, offering instrumental takes of … Continue reading →
MONSIEUR DOUMANI Grippy Grappa Monsieur Doumani www.monsieurdoumani.com Straight outta Nicosia, Cyprus, the trio of Monsieur Doumani are three young men on a mission to revitalise Cypriot folk music. Their first release, last year’s Cyfolk, … Continue reading →
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake Blackfeet Productions 93001 www.martharedbone.com/ With the knife guitar slashes’ ominous undertones that open this disc, we know that long-ago London’s bard, … Continue reading →
SARA WATKINS Sun Midnight Sun Nonesuch 530684 www.nonesuch.com Sara Watkins’ latest is an adventurous delight. Compact, sitting 35 minutes, it is a diverse set of thrills end to end. Sara, of course, plays violin. … Continue reading →
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Carry Me Home Dustbowl Revival www.dustbowlrevival.com Expanding steadily from a string band fronted by lead singer and songwriter/arranger Zach Lupetin that began by playing up and down the West Coast a … Continue reading →
STEVE MARTIN and EDIE BRICKELL Love Has Come For You Rounder 11661-9150 www.rounder.com This collaborative album by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is as congenial and sunny as you could want, even when the songs … Continue reading →
LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU The Bariba Sound Analog Africa 071 www.analogafrica.com During the ’60s, like the USA and Britain, Africa was experiencing an explosion of young, modern, cutting-edge bands, all of them seemingly … Continue reading →
CROOKED STILL Friends Of Fall Signature Sounds 2043 www.signaturesounds.com www.crookedstill.com I have always admired Crooked Still for their fearlessness and imagination. They have maintained a very high degree of quality, all the while pushing the envelope … Continue reading →
