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Ware River Club - The Bad Side Of Otis Ave.

On their debut disc, Ware River Club moves effortlessly from rockin', stompin' bar-band fare to cry-in-your-beer country, with solid songwriting always a part of the mix. Singer-songwriters Matt Herbert and Matt Cullen have assembled a crackerjack band of veteran musicians from the thriving New England alt-country scene. Drummer

Chuck E. Weiss - Extremely Cool

Eighteen years after his debut album, Los Angeles scenester Chuck E. Weiss is out to prove he is still extremely cool. So Weiss, the subject of an old Rickie Lee Jones song, has taken a few pages from the book of his friend Tom Waits, playing the part of a

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions

January 1971. The scenario is bleak. Our subjects are a bunch of greasy longhairs from Jacksonville, Florida, who live in tents and catch their own fish for dinner. After slumming it on the Florida club circuit for a couple years, they finally secure some studio time, only to see their

Lone Justice - This World Is Not My Home

She wanted to be Patsy Cline and Patti Smith, but by the second and final Lone Justice album, they had turned her into Patty Smyth. She, of course, is Maria McKee; "they" are executives at Geffen Records, producers Jimmy Iovine and Steve Van Zandt, L.A. writers such

Various Artists - Pearls In The Snow: The Songs Of Kinky Friedman

The success of a tribute album rests on three salient points: the artist being toasted, the material being covered, and the talent being assembled. Pearls In The Snow, coming nearly 30 years after Kinky Friedman's debut album was released, succeeds on all counts and in fact is a

Townes Van Zandt - A gentleman and a shaman

If you can see through the hangover haze and black-eyed pea tradition that ties one First Day to another, January 1st can serve as a dog-eared page for the book of days that follow. But on New Year's Day 1997, I saw the cycle of mortal life more

In A Pig's Eye: Trigg County, KY is hell, But it's a ham-lover's heaven

Yes, men and women may come and go, revolutions wrack monarchies, wives and husbands deceive us, taxes mount, the mechanized age buffet our ringing heads, but one of these hams will renew faith in the universe. To our wry and lawless mind such a ham is, during these chancey days,