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 →
THREE TALL PINES All That’s Left Three Tall Pines www.threetallpines.com Boston-based Three Tall Pines presents something of a non-sequitur, in that there are actually four of them, and something of a conundrum: are they … Continue reading →
SIMONE FELICE Simone Felice Team Love 56 Team Love Web Site Simon Felice Web Site The quiet opening track’s first sentence (with its protagonist born on the fourth of July to a cop and a … Continue reading →
HARRY BELAFONTE Sing Your Song: The Music Sony 93951 www.sonymusic.com This sixteen-track compilation features some of the multi-talented veteran’s most venerated recordings, from his own Mississippi riverboat-themed tale of “Mark Twain” to a reflective … Continue reading →
LAURIE LEWIS Skippin’ And Flyin’ Spruce And Maple 2006 www.spruceandmaplemusic.com Though virtually unknown east of the Mississippi until the mid-1980s, the past three decades have seen Laurie Lewis establish herself as one of the … Continue reading →
ANDY STATMAN Old Brooklyn Shefa 3004/5 www.andystatman.org Andy Statman, a bluegrass mandolin and klezmer clarinet virtuoso, blends elements of bluegrass and klezmer with elements of jazz, blues, rock and roll, folk, country, world music … Continue reading →
