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Kelly Joe Phelps - Tap The Red Cane Whirlwind

Kelly Joe Phelps has a naturally resonant voice that walks a fine line. He can sound richly appointed but untethered to the earth, a fate that sometimes befalls others with naturally beautifully timbres, such as John Martyn and even the over-earnest Bruce Cockburn (who shoots himself in the foot in

Fred Eaglesmith - Dusty

Fred Eaglesmith and producer Scott Merritt must've been listening to a lot of Daniel Lanois and Bob Dylan -- and Dusty Springfield -- lately. With its ambient mood and obtuse instrumentation, Dusty is a drastic departure from Eaglesmith's rock 'n' bluegrass sound, which will

Tom Russell - Hotwalker

Over eighteen albums, balladeer Tom Russell has written lasting songs that have been recorded by everyone from Johnny Cash to Doug Sahm, and sung them in a smooth, cleanly enunciated baritone that make even his collections of songs by others compelling. He's been devoted to all things Americana,

Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison

When last heard from, Marianne Faithfull was playing the devil in Robert Wilson's stage version of The Black Rider, making Faustian bargains with unsuspecting mortals. You could call that typecasting, given Faithfull's image of wizened decadence. On the other hand, you can imagine Faithfull herself making

Country Soul Revue - Testifying

Testifying is cut from the same country/soul/gospel cloth as such American south-born '90s gems as Arthur Alexander's Lonely Just Like Me, Dan Penn's Do Right Man, and Donnie Fritts' Everybody's Got A Song. Of course, that makes sense because Fritts

Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters Volume 2, 1952-1958

The years covered by this two-disc set coincide exactly with Muddy Waters' reign on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts, the same charts that big sellers such as the Platters, Fats Domino, B.B. King, Ruth Brown, the Drifters, and, uh, Elvis Presley were zooming up and down. Today,

Remembering Larry Brown

The soul of the world shrank a bit on November 24, when southern fiction author Larry Brown passed away. He died of a heart attack in his sleep. He was only 53, and left behind his wife, three children, and two grandchildren. He died at home in Mississippi, in his