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Fred Neil - Bleecker & Macdougal

He's the answer to the question, "Who wrote for Buddy Holly, was backed up live by Bob Dylan, and recorded with Gram Parsons?" The late Fred Neil was a unique figure, associated, as the title of this reissued 1965 Elektra LP suggests, with the '60s

Amy Rigby - 18 Again: An Anthology

Whatever the medium -- literature, film, music -- it's rare enough for an artist to forge a truly distinct, expansive voice, a personal style at once immediately recognizable and endlessly flexible. Rarer still, to discover this gift in one's late 30s, a period viewed all too

Beth Orton - No more an orphan girl

Beth Orton is the most genial kind of diffident interview subject: She dislikes the process, but entertains every question, and will readily cop to that fact that, even when the subject is herself, she doesn't have all the answers. "I feel people's disappointment is palpable

Kelly Willis - Nothing to fear

Kelly Willis - Nothing to fear

Kelly Willis is out of control. And she loves it that way. "Life is really easy when you just let things go out of control," she says. "You have to lose control to have control. That's sort of a theme of my life right now.

Dr. Ralph Stanley's Memorial Bluegrass Festival - Hills of Home Park (Coeburn, VA)

The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of "O Death" from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town from Hollywood to New York to Nashville. Stanley&

Waylon Jennings - Phase One: The Early Years 1958-1964

Release of this glance at the formative years of Waylon Jennings' career was slated well before anyone knew the disc would arrive just after the sad news of his passing. The timing only makes hearing these sides, recorded for a variety of labels long before the Outlaw years, all

John Trudell - Bone Days

John Trudell is one of the few recording artists who would include a review by the FBI among the blurbs in his press material -- right between kind words from Bonnie Raitt and a rave from the LA Weekly. "Extremely eloquent," some unidentified G-man wrote. Somehow it'