Articles tagged "africa to appalachia"![]() Slipped Discs 2008 FeaturePart 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiuby PopMatters Staff[22.Jan.09] :. From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there. ![]() Column: Torch & TwangHappy-Go-Pluckingby Juli Thanki[12.Jan.09] :. Steve Martin, Sufjan Stevens, and Kermit the Frog all know it and you should, too: the banjo is hands-down the coolest instrument out there. ![]() Music ReviewJayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko: Africa to Appalachiaby Deanne Sole[2.Oct.08] :. The kora, with its lacelike and intricate patterns of notes, is the more attention-catching instrument, and you could easily forget that this album is a partnership and start to think of it as a Mansa Sissoko project. |
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