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Dirk Powell - Family traditions

Dirk Powell is a rebel. He realized this early on, back in high school when most of his friends were listening to punk rock and spouting nonstop declarations of nonconformity. He knew that punk music was strong and reactionary, but it was also an image that was being sold. "

Angel Dean & Sue Garner - Reunited Rounduppers

It took more than twenty years for Angel Dean and Sue Garner to get around to Pot Liquor. The two women, both southerners by birth (Dean grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Garner in Cave Spring, Georgia) first met in New York City in the early 1980s. So in some

Patty Mitchell - These Are The Good Old Days

Listeners with an ear for a sweet yet powerful voice and with a good memory may recall Patty Mitchell as the singer whose talent earned her an upgrade from scratch vocalist to featured duet partner with Ralph Stanley on his award-winning Clinch Mountain Sweethearts album. Before that, she was a

Chris Smither - Honeysuckle Dog

Recorded with producer Michael Cuscuna in two sessions -- Woodstock, December 1972, and New York City, Spring 1973 -- this was to be Smither's third album for Poppy. Soon after it was finished, the label folded, parent company United Artists took over the masters, and the album was

Lloyd Cole - Music In A Foreign Language

The title song to Lloyd Cole's Music In A Foreign Language is so exquisitely written, so proficiently executed, that it makes even the most mannered singer-songwriter sound slovenly. Not just poetic, the lyrics are rendered like a poem -- sung, not just written, in a kind of iambic

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Oh, My Girl

With Reckless Burning, their 2002 debut, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter elicited gushing comparisons to such slo-core practitioners as the Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star and Low. Those are all apt reference points, to be sure, but Sykes' sound -- languid, ethereal, and spiced with echoey forebodings just this

James McMurtry - Live in Aught-Three

Perhaps partly because of his bloodline, James McMurtry enjoys (or endures) a reputation as the most writerly of Texas singer-songwriters, one whose material highlights literary qualities such as an eye for detail, a strong sense of place, a shifting narrative perspective and a keenly calibrated irony. Along the way, he