David Cantwell

We each inevitably hear music in the particular ways that we do at least partly because of all that we've heard before  because of the context and expectations we bring to new work. For instance, many of us have anticipated Ready For The Flood, an album by Mark

One of 2008's best country reissues, maybe even the best, is Ernest V. Stoneman: The Unsung Father Of Country Music, 1925-1934. The 46-track collection is smartly packaged, including a small hard-bound book with lots of photos. But it's the savvy selection of some too-long-unavailable early sides

The new HBO series True Blood imagines an America where vampires not only walk among us but are fighting for their civil rights. Though still hated and feared by humans, the undead have at last been able to come out of the casket  all thanks to the development of a

Levi Stubbs  the man who sang "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love", "Ask The Lonely" and "Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got"  died last week. All of those records were

If you wanted to pick country music's Best Album of All-Time, you could do a lot worse than to put Waylon Jennings' Dreaming My Dreams on the short list. It's hardly surprising, then, that someone would come along to pay tribute to that masterpiece. What