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Hammons Family - The Traditions Of A West Virginia Family And Their Friends

Among my most vivid memories are those of Saturday evenings with my family: My father played clawhammer banjo as my mother and sisters would sing "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" or "Worried Man Blues". Those songs weren't handed down across generations of Kastens -- my

Sandy Denny - Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty - The Final Concert

Sandy Denny possessed a truly singular voice. To her, it was both a gift and a burden. She spent her 31 years seeking companionship; from her parents, her bandmates, her lovers, her daughter, anyone who could buffer her intense shyness and insecurity. But despite her best attempts, Denny lived a

Mary McCaslin - Way Out West

"I tried to be a cowboy but I could not hold a gun," sang Mary McCaslin on her 1973 album Way Out West. Her confession was literal as well as metaphorical. McCaslin first fell under the spell of TV westerns and the gunfighter ballads of Marty Robbins when

John Fahey - America

The John Fahey canon is a decreasingly mysterious thing. For that, you can thank Fantasy Records. Over the past year or so, Fantasy has reissued some of Fahey's most obscure and mythologized releases from his own Takoma label. While Blind Joe Death and The Voice Of The Turtle

Dwight Yoakam - A Long Way Home / Various Artists - Will Sing For Food: The Songs Of Dwight Yoakam

Quick -- name three Dwight Yoakam songs. Not as easy as you'd think, is it? Nothing against the man's songwriting abilities, but let's face facts here: "Songwriting" is not the first word that leaps to mind when one ponders the components of

Jim & Dave Boquist - 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)

"We thought there might be about 50 people here," said Jim Boquist. Guess again. The small 400 Bar was flirting with an over-capacity crowd, maybe five times what Jim and his brother Dave had expected. The doorman was turning people away even before the Boquists hit the stage

Greg Garing's Alphabet City Opry - 9C (New York City, NY)

Greg Garing's otherworldly voice nearly overtakes his bone-thin luminosity, soaring sweet and achingly powerful, then dipping in a hushed outcast cry. "Blues In My Heart" perfectly collapses any resistance to hillbilly music. When "old-timer" Ward Verity joins at the single mike, the high, tender