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Secret Devil Sign
Listen UpA million years ago, Black Sabbath, heavy metal’s original Saurians, electrocuted the blues to invent an ominous breed of devil-courting, mom-scaring music.
The Shins
Listen UpWincing the Night Away, The Shins’ new album, picks up quickly where the band left off four years ago with Chutes Too Narrow.
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Listen UpMore Behind The Picture Than The Wall is a c.d. filled with “leapers and weepers” — a mix of upbeat, banjo-laced, toe-tapping hillbilly dance tunes and slow, sentimental songs about loss — from one of today’s most hon...
Johnny Cash
Listen UpAs a rockabilly pioneer, Johnny Cash sang what some people called the devil’s music.
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Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration (Stax Records/Concord Music Group)Listen Up
While Motown was getting a lot of well-deserved glory for its soul music successes in the 1960s and ’70s, Stax was in the trenches digging up and sharing funky, Southern-rooted, R&B-based soul. The label put 243 songs on...
Sunny Sweeney
Listen UpIt was last fall when Sunny Sweeney’s self-produced debut c.d. first arrived in the mail. Not that it was particularly momentous.
Blood of the Sun
Listen UpBlood of the Sun is a new local band, built from the spare parts of Sourvein, Storm at Sunrise, Rotting Corpse, and a couple of other hard North Texas groups.
Effron White
Listen UpArkansas native Effron White’s vocal style has been compared to that of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and John Prine.
Sly & the Family Stone
Listen UpSly Stone’s brief, dramatic performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards was the reclusive singer-player-writer-producer’s first major appearance since his 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and it serves as a vis...
Daymond Callahan
Listen UpApparently more determined to explore than to hew to genre, Daymond Callahan’s Music Society is focused on inspired, professional orchestration.