Reviews

Folk Alliance, Day 3

Photos by Ana Gibert Off and running in pursuit of both known talent and performers we haven’t yet visited, we started with John Wort Hannam, based on the one song … Read more

Folk Alliance International, Day 2

  Photos by Ana Gibert Day 2 performances ramped up a bit as everybody settled in to the FAI bluegrass-fast pace of the festival. The biggest challenge at FAI is … Read more

Various Artists

True Voices is an honest homage to those iconoclastic artists who have passed away, performed by artists who truly felt the impact of their songwriting. In some cases, the performers … Read more

Folk Alliance International, Day 1

Photos by Ana Gibert Day 1 at Folk Alliance began like every other day since Folk Alliance began: the warmth of old friends and the frisson of new discoveries. We … Read more

Neal Francis

Neal Francis. Who? You’ve probably not heard of him—yet. In a world filled with young “artists” who sound like they have emphysema, along comes a young man with a deep … Read more

Hank Williams

The man and his music in rare photos and recordings This six-CD box set could just as easily be called a book set, for the 272 page coffee table book … Read more

Martin Barre

Jethro Tull often gets lumped in with Prog Rockers somewhere between King Crimson and Renaissance, but Tull, at its best, had some hard-driving guitar that set it apart from many … Read more

Mark Hummel

Harmonicist’s Mark Hummel’s Wayback Machine, true to the title, is an album that could have just as easily come out in the early ‘60s as now. Hummel actually patterned the … Read more

Marshall Crenshaw

Going under the hood, Marshall Crenshaw made a few small repairs to 1996’s Miracle of Science. The first of five well-regarded records the bespectacled power-pop wizard released for the Razor … Read more