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Pogues - Red Roses For Me / Rum, Sodomy & The Lash / If I Should Fall From Grace With God / Peace & Love / Hell's Ditch

The Pogues were never as popular in the U.S. as in the U.K., where their albums regularly landed in the top 20. Which makes these reissues either a welcome introduction or a bracing reminder of just how well this band took musical elements of the past and present

Big Bill Broonzy - Amsterdam Live Concerts 1953

"If you like a song sing it," Big Bill says, introducing one of many traditional tunes. "If you don't, don't sing it." No more concise description of Broonzy's sound and vision is possible. He sang what he liked, and what

Everly Brothers - Chained To A Memory (8-CD box)

Moments on the DVD accompanying this comprehensive 1966-1972 collection speak volumes about the Everly Brothers' status in the post-British Invasion mid-1960s. Singing their '50s hits on NBC's weekly rock showcase Hullabaloo, their influence on the Beatles notwithstanding, the Everlys' sense of displacement is palpable, a

Alan Jackson - Like Red On A Rose

In nearly seventeen years since his debut, Alan Jackson's musical integrity has remained unswerving. He's maintained, even enhanced his no-frills modern traditionalism while evolving into a world-class songwriter whose work rarely needs enhancement from the usual retinue of Music Row hack "collaborators." His courageous

The Drams - Back from the Bone break

As Brent Best talks, roosters cackle outside his back door. "A low-rent Shangri-La" is where he's living these days outside Denton, a university town in north Texas that his former band Slobberbone helped put on the musical map. In Slobberbone's tenure -- five albums

Blaze Foley - The fall and rise of Blaze Foley

The black granite headstone is lost among the other markers in the Live Oak Cemetery in deep South Austin. Several small objects including a small plastic toy truck scattered around the simple flat tombstone are the only indication the dead person buried six feet under still resonates among the living,

Marvin Sease - Candy Licker: The Sex And Soul Of Marvin Sease

You've probably never heard of Marvin Sease, but from "Candy Licker" in 1986 until 2005, he was the only artist in the contemporary southern soul-blues genre to be on a major label (two, actually). This is doubly remarkable because he had only one R&B