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Harry Smith - Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four

Indulging his discursive wont, Greil Marcus breaks from Invisible Republic's examination of Dylan's storied Basement Tapes to excavate the remains of a forgotten frontier town, Smithville. Peopled by card sharks and confidence men, vengeful lovers and bewildered cuckolds, bombastic holy men and salt-of-the-earth farmers, Smithville is

Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues

Depending on how you keep track -- that is, depending on how tight you want to wear your documentarian-geek beanie -- Transcendental Blues is Steve Earle's tenth album. Beginning in 1986, he blew the doors off Nashville with Guitar Town, blew their cover with Exit 0, and blew

Neil Young - Silver & Gold

Neil Young's 29th album begins to describe itself, not far from its end. "The flash of a distant camera, reconnecting thoughts and actions...Fragments of our missing dream, pieces from here and there...Fall in place along the line, disappearing between you and me..." A Neil

Jody Stecher - Going Up On The Mountain

As though more evidence were needed, this reissue makes plain the fascinating consequences of the folk revival. Jody Stecher came of age during the second-wave revival of the '60s, taking Ralph Rinzler's slot as mandolinist in the Greenbrier Boys and then joining David Grisman in the New

Donner Party - Complete Recordings 1987-1989

By way of introduction: Quasi is one of the best bands in existence today. According to me. So there! Sam Coomes is the primary singer and songwriter in Quasi, but the abilities of drummer/singer/songwriter Janet Weiss can not possibly be overestimated, because Quasi is a band. And so

Amazing Rhythm Aces - Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed To Jump, Toucan Do It Too/Burning The Ballroom Down

From the late '60s to the early '70s, music made in the South achieved a convergence that put pop, rock, blues, soul, country and gospel all on the same page. As the key areas of Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Macon and Nashville moved in a unified groove; listeners could

Shivaree - I Oughtta Give You a Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump

I find records like Shivaree's debut release troubling. Troubling like that high school kid who averaged 20 points a night for the hoops squad before getting kicked off the team for a DUI. There's talent here: "potential" hangs over this disc like a silver