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Nevermind the Slackers, Here's the Loafers

While nowadays it's hard to view the latter half of the '70s through anything but the safety-pinned lenses of punk, at the time there were pockets of resistance blissfully unaffected by the Sex Pistols and their unholy spawn. Back then, up in the Smoky Mountains, news

Danny Flowers - Vine ripened

Despite coming of age in the late-'60s/early-'70s -- when seemingly every other lead guitar player with a few months of spotlighted solos under his belt would split off to front his own band -- exemplary guitarist and first-rate songwriter Danny Flowers has waited until the ripe

Kris Kristofferson - Self-Titled

"If it sounds country, man, that's what it is. It's a country song." That's Kris Kristofferson talking, just before launching into "Me And Bobby McGee", one of the greatest country songs -- hell, one of the greatest songs -- ever. Looking back,

Rodney Crowell - Diamonds and Dirt

These three reissues -- the first from Legacy's top-shelf "American Milestones" series, the latter two from Lucky Dog's "Pick of the Litter" series -- comprise the "commercial" portion of Rodney Crowell's solo recording career. These albums were preceded by

Various Artists - Come On Beautiful: The Songs Of American Music Club

On the songwriting landscape, Mark Eitzel has been consigned to a dark, shady corner, the result of about a dozen American Music Club records filled with tunes that painstakingly detailed the emotional life of the urban romantic. The artists contributing to Come On Beautiful pledge allegiance to AMC, offering passionate

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 at

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 to include