Pokey LaFarge

Pokey Lafarge invites you to immerse yourself in a period of music from the mid western USA which formed the heart and soul of the country.

Singer/songwriter Pokey LaFarge can be as bluegrass as Bill Monroe, as country as Johnny Cash and as folk as Bob Dylan. In…

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Though he was born in 1983, Pokey LaFarge is an artist whose music harkens back to an era decades before his birth -- vintage country in the manner of the great Jimmie Rodgers, classic acoustic blues and jazz, Western swing, and the songs of the ragtime era.

US bango player Pokey LaFarge puts a modern spin on swing and ragtime on his convincing latest, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

Unforced and eventually contagious wander through older Americana styles. CD review by Thomas H Green