The Burden Brothers
No reason to describe this one in faux-poetic terms or edu-ma-cational journalism. The Burden Brothers’ new album Mercy rocks your backside about 75 percent...
Krum’s Bare Knuckle Gospel
What a difference a name makes. The new joint by Tarrant County rapper Krum (formerly known as Playdough) and producer DJ Rob Viktum is...
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash sat at a microphone in his home studio with his guitar and sang these often sentimental, sometimes corny, always heartfelt songs into...
Charlie Musselwhite
Delta Hardware is hard-edged, harmonica-laced, electric blues from the bottom of Charlie Musselwhite’s roots (Mississippi Delta via Memphis and Chicago). Musselwhite, who recently settled...
Merkin
It might not matter to anyone else, but it does to me: Merkin was the last band I watched grow up onstage at The...
Waylon Jennings & the Waymore Blues Band
By the time of this January 2000 concert, Waylon Jennings had survived bypass surgery, diabetes, emphysema, severe carpal tunnel syndrome, and a minor stroke...
Elvis White
On Promise, a seductive reggae album with strong hip-hop elements, Elvis White urges listeners to think positively — and then urges himself to seduce...
Son Seals
A Journey Through the Blues: The Son Seals Story celebrates the semi-acclaimed, wholly distinctive singer-songwriter and ax-man the way he lived: straight-ahead and raw.
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Wood Brothers
Loaded, the second collaboration between brothers Oliver and Chris Wood, follows 2006's critically acclaimed Ways Not To Lose.
The brothers' folk-blues-country sound is a little...