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Steve Earle / V-Roys - "Johnny Too Bad"

Cacophonous and caffeinated, Claire is clicking at her clackety keyboard on the teensy end of a.m., fatiguing along like the good little spit-shined she-soldier she wishes she were. And the metaphor is aptly wrapped, for like a bulging bugler (heavily into reveille), Claire has something to trumpet up your

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings - High Or Hurtin'

Much of country music is about landscape and travel, the road serving as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. And if a country song is not about movin' on down the road, it's likely about hanging around honky-tonks. High Or Hurtin' speaks the

Chris Wall - Any Saturday Night in Texas

I first found out about Chris Wall a few years ago when Jerry Jeff Walker covered two of his songs on his Live At Gruene Hall record. Those songs reflected the two sides of Chris Wall's work. The first, "I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight", is

Gerald Collier - I Had To Laugh Like Hell

Former Best Kisser In The World Gerald Collier displays his wondrous aptitude for dark, acoustic-oriented pop songwriting on this solo debut, joining the ranks of expressive Pacific Northwest frontmen who also have made solo albums in an effort to cleanse their souls. Like Heatmiser's Elliott Smith and Mark

Dennis Brennan - Iodine In The Wine

I have three friends who have yet to steer me wrong (at least with music). All are Boston-to-Nashville transplants, so when they each sang praises of Bostonian Dennis Brennan, I listened. They were right, again: Brennan's new Upstart disc mixes Motown, Buck Owens and the Rolling Stones in

Gene Autry - Blues Singer 1929-1931: Booger Rooger Saturday Nite! / Riders in the Sky - Public Cowboy #1: The Music Of Gene Autry

While Gene Autry is best-known for his classic Western songs, it may surprise some of his fans to discover that at the beginning of his career, he was an unabashed Jimmie Rodgers imitator who sang the blues with gusto. A number of the songs included on Blues Singer 1929-1931 are

Billy Joe Shaver - Old Five and Dimers Like Me

Billy Joe Shaver is the real deal. Born in Corsicana, Texas, raised in Waco. Mother worked in a honky-tonk. Shaver himself worked as a bull rider and a bronco buster, in addition to more pedestrian go-rounds as a gas station attendant, car salesman and sawmill worker, where he lost parts