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Various Artists - A Shot In The Dark: Tennessee Jive Country Music On Nashville's Independent Labels, 1945-1955

By now we're all aware of the profound role played by Bear Family in the documentation of vintage country music, and of the first-rate nature of their compilations when measured by recording quality, comprehensiveness, and annotations. But this may be their most important box set yet. The Jimmie

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose

Bob Wills is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and when there's a tribute to his music and memory, it's no surprise to see Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson or Marty Stuart taking part. But did his bands play much country music? He had the

Gram Parsons - Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons 1965-1966

Gram Parsons gets heavy credit as one of the pioneers and true talents of country rock. In the 27 years since his death, no one has matched the beautiful fragility of his voice or his novelistic sense of country songwriting (i.e., "$1000 Wedding"). Though Parsons may not

Little Feat - Hotcakes And Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat

Little Feat has really been a series of different bands with only two constants, keyboardist Bill Payne and drummer Richie Hayward, and a long shadow cast by the late Lowell George. Hotcakes And Outtakes allows for some perspective on the band's three-decade career. It also demonstrates how fragmented

Eric Taylor - Deep dark soul of the sweet sunny south

Townes is dead and Guy is co-writing these days. Eric Taylor is drinking Hennessy cognac, watching people watch him, then flipping through a black notebook where he keeps the songs. It's Anderson Fair in Houston, or the Sandwich Factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, or a house concert in

Arlo Guthrie - Outlasting The Blues / Power Of Love

Outlasting the Blues (1979) features Arlo Guthrie on the cover with a saxophone, a bad but unrepresentative sign. Inside he offers some of the most searching -- of self, society and spirit -- lyrics he ever wrote. "In the event of my demise," he starts, "Be sure

Hank Williams - Alone With His Guitar

Race on down to your local dry goods store, or haven't you heard? -- Hank Williams has a new record out! The pace has picked up again in the last decade (after an uncommonly dry spell in the 1980s), but thanks to the prescient ingenuity of the folks