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Joe Isaacs - Dreaming Of Home

Patriarch and founder of bluegrass gospel family group the Isaacs, Joe Isaacs stuck out on his own several years ago. Despite his background, his first solo CD has no gospel songs; instead, with the help of a strong cast that includes a son (Ben), a daughter (Sonya) and a clutch

Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, And His Legacy

Blind Lemon Jefferson remains a shadowy figure. As with Charley Patton, only one photograph of him exists. Like Robert Johnson, he died under mysterious circumstances, found frozen to death on a Chicago street in 1929. With his mixture of blues and spirituals delivered in a thin, piercing voice, Jefferson had

Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter

Despite a tendency among writers to view this UK combo's moniker as shorthand -- "'Mojave': open spaces, solitude, country-rock; OK, got it!" -- there were enough manifestations of Giant Sand, Neil Young and Gram Parsons on the band's first three albums to

Jay Bennett / Edward Burch - Palace 1919

Palace 1919 contains largely acoustic versions of songs from Jay Bennett & Edward Burch's 2002 debut The Palace At 4 A.M. (Part I), an album that, in the first place, not enough people got to hear. The whole affair has been curiously packaged to look like John

Joe Henry - Tiny Voices

Let's see now, how long has it been since alt-country was claiming Joe Henry as one of its next great things? Would you believe a full decade ago, when he was hooking up with the Jayhawks on Short Man's Room and Kindness Of The World and

Dwight Yoakam - Population: Me

Following an artist for any length of time involves putting up with some self-indulgence, since they've got to keep themselves interested enough to keep going. With rock bands, that might be in-concert drum solos or misguided solo projects. Jazz musicians invariably feel compelled to dabble in classical at

Carl T. Sprague - Cowtrails, Longhorns & Tight Saddles: Cowboy Songs 1925-1929

Carl Sprague wasn't the first singing cowboy, but he was the first to have a hit single; "When The Work's All Done This Fall", his 1925 recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company, reportedly sold 900,000 copies in the years before the Great