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Richmond Fontaine - Safety

Lets do away with the formalities and cut to the quick: This is an exciting record. Not only because the songs are great (which they are), but because it sounds like the arrival of a band with many years of great songs ahead. This Portland trio, led by singer and

Tom T. Hall - Songs from Sopchoppy

Based on the strength and beauty of his best material, it is proper to number Tom T. Hall among Nashville's great songwriters. But for every stunning "That's How I Got to Memphis" or "I Flew Over Our House Last Night", Hall seems

Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis

I took me six or seven listens to get there, but there is plenty to recommend about Grant Lee Buffalo's third album. More melodic but much less rocking than its predecessors, Copperopolis finds the band digging deep and taking some chances in its best moments. But the listener

Bill Kirchen - Have Love, Will Travel

When rock 'n' roll crawled onto land in the 1950s, it emerged from the morass comprising jump blues, rhythm & blues, country, and hillbilly music. Around 1970, when rock 'n' roll was only as far removed from its humble beginnings as today's music has

BR5-49 - Live from Robert's (EP)

All kinds of ink has been spilled recently heralding this Nashville combo as a welcome return to a time when country music could be found in its rawest and purest form -- and totally line-dance free. And after listening to the band's debut, Live At Robert's,

Kimmie Rhodes - West Texas Heaven / Waylon Jennings - Right for the Time / Willie Nelson - Spirit

Those of us who share a Lone Star state of mind frequently feel that Texas music fails to receive due justice from the music industry at large, that the cross-bred styles that are the state's stock in trade don't fit neatly within the categorical boxes where

Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels

Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels

[Editor's note: In recent discussions with a couple of our contributors, Rob Patterson and Bud Scoppa, we discovered that both had been among a small crowd on hand for a Gram Parsons gig at New York's legendary Max's Kansas City nightclub in March 1973.