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Originally issued in the U.K. seven years ago on a tiny label while Prophet was on hiatus from the now-defunct Green On Red, Brother Aldo quickly disappeared despite receiving some outstanding reviews in the British press. But Velvel has wisely picked up the rights and issued it for the

Even in bluegrass, where instrumental ability is an across-the-board prerequisite, sidemen are often overlooked, and for a long time there's been no more egregious a case of insufficient acclaim than that of Bobby Hicks, former Blue Grass Boy, member of the Bluegrass Album Band studio supergroup, and lone

Beginning with his early '80s work as frontman for the Long Ryders and through his more recent output via the London-based Coal Porters (plus a writing credit for his bio of Gram Parsons), Sid Griffin has been channeling the roots of American music for quite some time now. But

I have an old copy of a book called Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (now criminally out-of-print) that collects and comments on protest and blues songs of the 1930s. In it, Woody Guthrie quotes organizer and songwriter Aunt Molly Jackson: "I composed this song one morning a

A bit of a misnomer, this. It's my understanding that sacred recordings of this era and nature usually fall under the heading of sanctified blues. But music this transcendent would put the fear of God in me no matter what you called it. Besides, that's not