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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

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

Various Artists - Black Banjo Songsters

These 32 tracks of deep, nearly-forgotten hill music represent a curious intersection of rural African-American and European-American sounds. Most folks interested in the roots of American music know that modern banjo evolved from an African gourd instrument, that the clawhammer style of playing can be traced back to the mother

Dock Boggs - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (192729)

With the release of this compilation, John Fahey's project label has returned to print the late-'20s recordings of Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (18981971), the Appalachian singer and banjo player from western Virginia whose voice could curdle strong beer and whose preoccupations with violence and

Jim Ford - Harlan County

Gram Parsons left the Byrds after making Sweetheart Of The Rodeo in hopes of achieving a synthesis of country, soul and rock 'n' roll he dubbed "Cosmic American Music." He realized that vision twice -- first, with the Flying Burrito Brothers, on The Gilded Palace Of

Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood

Back in 1995, when Nick Lowe was promoting his last superb album, The Impossible Bird, he was asked during a taping of NPR's "Fresh Air" program if he felt his current songs carried less irony than his previous works. Amid some laughter, he responded that while

Hangdogs - East Of Yesterday

Let's just cut to the chase: East Of Yesterday is one heck of a good record. Sweet melodies, rockin' guitars, irresistible hooks, twangy steel and fiddle, knowing lyrics, and straight-ahead singing combine to form a string of fine songs propelled by a great sound. Hailing from New