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Tony Joe White - Uncovered

The old swamp dog's voice has thickened and his range is even more restricted than it used to be, but Tony Joe White's lyrical vision remains as sharp as a cottonmouth's fang, and he can still pack more emotional wallop into a whisper than

Great Speckled Bird - Self-Titled

When the roll call of grand achievements in country-rock is sounded off, Great Speckled Bird rarely makes the cut alongside the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo or the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace Of Sin. The obscurity of this electrified 1970 experiment by Canadian folk icons Ian

King Curtis - Live At Fillmore West

On "Memphis Soul Stew", the opening track Live At Fillmore West, King Curtis introduces the band. When it comes time for Cornell Dupree's introduction, the saxophonist says something about "four level tablespoons of boiling Memphis guitar." Dupree responds by playing a simple run, nothing

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

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,

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

Various Artists - The Pilgrim: A Celebration Of Kris Kristofferson

There are some first-rate songwriters of whom it's said that their songs show up can't-miss and singer-proof. There may be a handful of Kristofferson songs that turned out to be as simple and straightforward as that, but for the most part, the man's writings