Corrine West
Corrine West quit school and left her California home when she was 15 to travel with nomadic artists in a converted school bus, looking...
PrinceRodriguez
Songs from the Sod, the second album from Fort Worth’s PrinceRodriguez, is a mostly enjoyable country-blues-rock romp with a bit of gypsy outlaw in...
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...
Little Texas
In 1997, I attended Little Texas’ farewell concert at Billy Bob’s Texas and witnessed a good but not great performance by an overblown group...
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full (Mercury) On a first, casual listen, Paul McCartney’s new Memory Almost Full seems rather ordinary.
Second and subsequent listens...
Future Clouds and Radar
Have you ever gone out on a first date with someone, hit it off immediately, enjoyed unexpected hours of heartfelt conversation and some sizzling...
Overkill
Move forward or keep the status quo? In thrash, do you stay tied to the mid-1980s — arguably the genre's halcyon days — or...
The Broken West
Somewhere in the atom-splitting genre distinctions that music critics like to confer, it got lost that pop can be punk and punk can be...
Pat Green
The 2003 release of Wave on Wave marked a turning point and dividing line in Pat Green's career. Some of his early fans considered...