Nels Cline Singers
A musician I know put it thus: “Nels Cline is a warlock!” While I doubt the Wilco guitarist is conversant in the dark arts,...
Buddy Guy
As one of the masters of the blues, Buddy Guy has honored, enlivened, and extended the genre during his 50-year career. The three-c.d., one-DVD...
Brad Colerick
Brad Colerick’s Lines in the Dirt is filled with smooth country songs about love and a deranged ex-wife, corn and the Jesus you don’t...
Red Monroe
Red Monroe’s sound has evolved quickly over the last few years.
From the lush, layered, early-U2 stylings of the band’s first release to the athletic...
Yokyo Castle in the Air
Yokyo
Castle in the Air
(Ninetone Records)
With the amount of ink spilled in these pages on folky singer-songwriters, country crooners, and various sub-sub-genre’d rock bands, it’s...
Gram Parsons
Fallen Angel, a documentary on singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, has an interesting angle: that the Southern man’s career goal was to die young and become...
Bobby Bare
The songs on this remastered and augmented version of Bobby Bare’s 1973 album Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies exist in a world...
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse
Surprise: Band name and title notwithstanding, Cries from tha Ghetto isn't a hip-hop album. Rather, it's the second album from a 30-year-old trumpeter who...
One-Eyed Doll
One-Eyed Doll is not just another Texas-based power-rock duo that sounds much bigger than its headcount.
Fans of The Blackhearts, Siouxsie and The Banshees,...
The Juke Jumpers
Anyone who’s seen The Juke Jumpers knows the wild, sweaty nights this band can invoke.
Drinking and dancing are trusty companions to rockabilly juke-joint jump...
