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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

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

Shel Silverstein: 1930 to 1999

Every kid wants to grow up and be like his daddy -- my daddy just happened to write songs, record them, and shake his butt on stages all over the world. And in the eyes of my parents, there is no occupation more noble than that of a songwriter --

Stacey Earle - Making her own name

Family and self-reliance are two concepts central to Stacey Earle's life and career. While her brother Steve's dramatic ups and downs have been the subject of news reports and magazine profiles, Stacey has experienced considerable personal turbulence without all the public attention. But this relative anonymity

Gene Clark - Flying High

One can only hope Gene Clark, peering in from eternity, is chuckling knowingly at the delays and complications that surrounded the release of this all-too-short retrospective. The final postponement, Polydor's dissolution of the U.S. A&M label, makes this one an import. It's all

Alejandro Escovedo - Bourbonitis Blues

By the standards of a business in which marketing campaigns are measured in years instead of weeks, and new records, even by cult artists, are dropped on us like major position papers, this is a modest effort: a mix of covers and fresh originals, studio tracks and live cuts, bound

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - The Original Band

First, the facts: These two CDs collect four of the most influential bluegrass albums ever made. For anyone with an interest in bluegrass (as opposed to an individual artist here and there), they are required listening. Why? Because Doyle Lawson and his bands created and elaborated on a new sound