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Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...
Song of Himself
The next time Texas balladeer Steven Fromholz performs here, you might be snapping your fingers rather than applauding.
“I will be dressing all in black...
Prodigal Picker
Few native sons have ridden their guitar as far as Brad Davis, who went from taking ax lessons in Fort Worth as a kid...
John Denver
John Denver was a consistently — some would say mercilessly — sweet and upbeat-sounding performer, even on his sad songs.
The best of his hits...
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock is probably the most unassuming hero in modern rock, an idea he wouldn’t scoff at but would more than...
Made Men
As the demise of West Seventh Street approaches, West Berry Street appears to be picking up some of the slack.
Not in terms of...
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...
Tin Men
After more than two years of tightening and polishing songs, Tame ... Tame and Quiet finally has an album, Tin Can Communicate.
Affected palpably...
Chris Knight
Songs pour from Chris Knight like good whiskey from a bottle. He’s an independent-spirited chronicler of existential life in American small towns where there’s...
Son Volt
With anger over the war in Iraq escalating and next year’s presidential election looming, there seems to be a lot of politically charged music...
