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George Jones - The Grand Tour

By 1974, George Jones had already had quite the volatile career -- riding high on a long string of top-10 hits, being reduced to living in his car outside of Jasper, Texas, and hitting every conceivable point between. The '70s opened with mostly misses for Jones, including releases with

Bill Monroe - My Last Days On Earth: 1981-1994

This four-CD box concludes Bear Family's encyclopedic six-box exploration of Monroe's career. The focus here, Monroe's last thirteen years on MCA, starts in 1981 when, diagnosed with colon cancer, he wrote and recorded the somber, decidedly un-Monroe instrumental peroration "My Last Days On

Jim Ford - The Sounds Of Our Time

Jim Ford is a music-world Zelig. He grew up with Loretta Lynn a neighbor and later was in a relationship with Bobbie Gentry, afterward contending that he wrote "Ode To Billie Joe". There he is in the photo collage adorning his close friend Sly Stone's There&

John Doe - A Year In The Wilderness

The finest singer to emerge from American punk (depending on how you classify Los Lobos and David Hidalgo), John Doe has somehow managed to combine the reckless urgency that burned through his work with X with the lyrical precision and musical expansiveness that has marked his growth as a songwriter.

Marshall Tucker Band - The Next Adventure

THE 1970S were more forgiving of flute-fueled rock music than any time since. Chicago. Tim Weisberg. Dan Fogelberg. Jethro Tull. Amid that eras wind-whirlwind, the mightiest rock-flute line of them all belongs to the Marshall Tucker Band. Its the trill of notes at the start of Cant You See. The

Elliott Murphy - Coming Home Again

Packed with blistering anthems and effusive ballads, Elliott Murphys 29th album ranks among his best, but you may have to play it several times to realize that. Nothing here seems likely to grab listeners as quickly as, say, 2002s hook-laden Come On Louann, and none of the rockers pack the

Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life And Times Of Gene Autry

A pop hero of huge proportions, Gene Autry has posed special problems for any biographer. He was an "eye on the prize" go-getter, reluctant to reveal much about his impoverished Oklahoma upbringing and often dysfunctional, dependent family; recalcitrant about providing any details on the early evolution of his