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Sure, Texas is the second-biggest state in the union, but is it really fair for them to have that many damn fine singer-songwriters? The Robison clan from the Central Texas town of Bandera managed to produce two of them -- Bruce and Charlie. Fresh on the heels of his brother&

An important figure in the folk and rock scenes from the late 1960s until his retirement from performing in the mid-1980s, David Bromberg now builds violins for a living and performs infrequently. The Player serves as a first-rate primer for those not familiar with his work, as well as a

How good are these forgotten, spare, living room recordings? Set against any singer-songwriter record in the ten years since its first appearance in 1988, the songs still shine like beautiful roadside bits of glass or chrome. The graceful ease of the sound owes, in part, to the not-quite-south-of-the-border acoustic ensemble

One of the titans of trucker-country, Dick Curless was a curious bird: a proud but broken man; a high school dropout who could convey loneliness and regret with all-too-real eloquence; a Yank from Fort Fairfield, Maine, who used words like "tickled" and "reckon" in regular conversation.

Can this import really be the first CD retrospective of the Earl Scruggs Revue? Given the availability of virtually every note Earl Scruggs recorded as one-half of Flatt & Scruggs, it seems odd that it has taken eighteen years since the band's breakup for a compilation of this

In a recent concert, Gillian Welch wryly noted that a fan had brought to her attention a fact about herself she had never considered. Namely, that as a writer she has two great themes: flowers and death. If pressed for two words to describe Welch's latest offering, Hell