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Grant Alden

Chip Taylor - Seven Days In May...A Love Story

Two years ago, when I first wrote about Chip Taylor's return to songwriting and performing, I titled the story "When A Man Grows Older," borrowing the phrase from an obscure Italo Svevo novel about an older man's unrequited love for a younger woman. It

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Blackjack

Though hardly an unknown, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown has rarely been the beneficiary of the kind of elder-statesman adulation that has attended the waning years of John Lee Hooker. True, Brown's never had a hit the size of "Boogie Chillun", but more importantly, he'

Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - Bring the Family

Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - Bring the Family

"The old write memoirs, the young do resumes. In midlife we keep a kind of diary that always begins with a discussion of the weather. The present is where we live, equidistant from our birth and death....We see our history and future clearly. We sleep well, dream in

Lucinda Williams - Self-Titled

One can only spend so many minutes kneeling on the floor, slipping CDs in and out of the player, before the subtle nuances fade into irrelevance. Lucinda Williams' third album has been remastered for reintroduction into the digital world, and is doubtless the better for that attention; certainly the

Whiskeytown - Faithless Street

What a difference a few thousand dollars can make. Originally recorded three short years ago by an unknown North Carolina band as the debut offering from an unknown North Carolina label (Mood Food), Faithless Street had about it the raw, scared urgency of a band that wanted desperately to get

Mark Lanegan: You Might As Well Live

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. -- Dorothy Parker, "Resume" The fingernails by which Mark Lanegan has been hanging these last few years -- maybe his

Mark O'Connor - Midnight On The Water

Prodigies rarely prove out, mostly burn out, the bright, fast flame of youth replaced by smoldering charcoal and endless dates before the Paducah Ladies' Performance Society. Mark O'Connor started winning fiddle contests before he could drive, toured and recorded with the best Nashville has to offer, and