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Little Richard - Get Down With It!: The Okeh Sessions

In 1966, Little Richard was in the same boat as most of the others who had invented rock 'n' roll little more than ten years earlier -- washed ashore by the British invasion, by changing tastes, and by the inability to either get with the times or make

Roger McGuinn - Self-Titled / Peace On You

The Byrds at their artistic peak were a fractious band with an uneasy chemistry, unable to sustain a balance for any significant duration. They were not alone in this. Some of the era's other important bands had equally volatile combinations of personalities and inclinations, creating pivotal works but

Rooftop Singers - The Best of the Vanguard Years

Christopher Guest's 2003 satirical film A Mighty Wind affectionately spoofed three real-life '60s folk luminaries: the Kingston Trio (the Folksmen), the New Christy Minstrels (New Main Street Singers) and the duo of Ian & Sylvia (Mitch & Mickey). Satirizing the Rooftop Singers wouldn't have been

Norah Jones - Feels Like Home

Give the young woman with the pleasing smile some serious credit. The pressure to simply supply Come Away With Me -- Again, with all of that moved-to-New York ambience merely replicated, or even exaggerated, must have been enormous. But Feels Like Home is as much a turn in another direction

Graham Parker - Your Country

Always the outsider, the inscrutable observer who keeps his distance behind those sunglasses, Graham Parker stakes out familiar territory on an album promoted as a new direction. Your Country, he calls it. Not My Country or Graham Parker's Country, but America's country music, the music of

Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute - Ryman Auditorium (Nashville, TN)

It hasn't been remarked on much, but a chorus of voices that had been sidelined or diminished for a good while were uncannily renewed in time to rise for this occasion, for the singing that needed to be done -- not just Rosanne's, a voice that

Don Gibson: 1928 to 2003

That Don Gibson deserved Country Music Hall of Fame membership long before his 2001 induction was a given. But when he died November 17 at age 75, wire service obits mainly cited his three best-known compositions: "I Can't Stop Loving You", Sweet Dreams", and "