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Maria McKee - Peddlin' Dreams

Within the wistful romantic reverie of the folkish, album-opening "Season Of The Fair", the first words from Maria McKee are "Will you remember me?" She sings the song to a former lover, yet she could just as easily be addressing the question to the audience that

Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm

It's easy to see how, if a song you wrote served as the primary inspiration for a movie -- as Aimee Mann's "Deathly" did for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, the soundtrack of which was fleshed out with more of Mann's

South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles: Not Until The Operation's Through

In terms of channeling ambition into strange nooks and crannies, Will Oldham and Conor Oberst might have nothing on Will Johnson. As with those other eccentrics, Johnson's prolific songwriting spills over from his main band (Centro-matic) into side projects. But neither Oldham nor Oberst has recorded an entire

Sammi Smith: 1943 to 2005

For a time in the 1970s, it seemed Sammi Smith might join her friends Waylon and Willie in the Outlaw ranks and become one of the few females of the clan. Tragically, it never quite happened. Jewel Fay Smith's family hailed from Oklahoma, but she was born in

Amos Lee - Storied soul

"The worst thing for an artist to have done to you," Amos Lee submits, "is to be tagged as something, or not something. Or for a human being to be, for that matter -- unless you want to do it for yourself." He's clearly

John Darnielle - Where the truth lies

"I mostly feel honored to have been able to do for somebody else what music's always done for me: held my hand when I was walking down dark alleys and couldn't see my way out." "People used to assume I was some crazed

Bob Dylan / Merle Haggard / Amos Lee - Chiles Center, (Portland, OR)

I go to see Bob Dylan perform every chance I get. If Picasso were going to paint tonight in the public square and I could get a ticket to watch, I wouldn't miss that either. Dylan shows are idiosyncratic, spontaneous and far more adventurous than those of most