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Gram Parsons - A long-lost soul for a long, long time

Gram Parsons - A long-lost soul for a long, long time

If Gram Parsons knew when he scribbled those words in a 1972 letter that 21 years later country music's biggest stars would record a best-selling tribute album to the Eagles, he probably would have been aghast. Though his oft-stated desire was to introduce pure, unadulterated country to rock

Buzz Zeemer - Nothing comes easy

The story of Buzz Zeemer is really two stories, each straight out of the standard rock 'n' roll manual. First, there was Flight of Mavis, a three-piece band from the Replacements school of melodic, attitudinal rock. Distinguished by Frank Brown's cut-above songwriting and warm, personable singing

Marc Olsen - Didn't Ever...Hasn't Since...

Formerly the guitarist for Seattle trio Sage, Marc Olsen recently earned notoriety for his work with Mark Lanegan on the Screaming Trees singer's 1998 solo tour. Olsen's second solo album reveals him as something of a kindred spirit to Lanegan, with songs of intimacy and drama

Cornell Hurd Band - At Large In South Austin, Texas

Chances are you won't be at Jovita's in Austin on a Thursday night when the Cornell Hurd Band hosts its weekly hoedown, so this disc is the next best thing. Recorded with pristine clarity at the Texicalli Grille, the 24 tracks on At Large In South

Drive-By Truckers - Pizza Deliverance

Alabama-reared Patterson Hood and the rest of Drive By Truckers are Southerners, and I'm a Northerner, so the connection I feel to the best songs on the band's sophomore release, Pizza Deliverance, is not geographical. It's more of a small-town America thing: We may

Gram Parsons - Under Your Spell Again

The brevity of Gram Parsons' life inherently magnifies the importance of any documents that can inform our understanding of his talent. Though the official Parsons canon contains more than enough to justify his stature, it's a meager catalogue compared to other legends who stuck around this mortal

Richard Buckner - Bloomed

Richard Buckner's 1994 debut album, Bloomed, heralded the arrival of a uniquely expressive and honest songwriter and reaped Buckner tomes of critical praise, a deal with MCA (now void), and heavyweight expectations -- some of which he's delivered on, some of which he hasn't.