Peter Blackstock

In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote "Song of 27", the album's final track, "as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family's characters. I abandoned the project

For better or for worse, I must own up to the fact that my record collection contains approximately 250 different versions of the 10 songs on this disc. And while it may say something about my sanity (or lack thereof) that I spent countless hours in 1993 and '94

"I'll ride with you tonight, I'll ride forever/There's no way to predict this kind of weather." It's the kind of opening line that sets a tone, sticks with you, serves as a harbinger that something significant is looming on

Perhaps my hopes are just too high for Martin Zellar, given that his former band the Gear Daddies seemed ultimately one of the best (if most underappreciated) bands the mid-late 80s Minneapolis scene produced. Lost in the shadow of their harder-edged brethren such as the Replacements, Husker Du and Soul

I'd like to think we're missing something, my co-editor and I, when it comes to Jim Lauderdale. Understand that the two of us quite often don't see eye to eye in our musical tastes, a divergence that hopefully helps bring a broader and more

Given that Bob Dylan's catalog has pretty much been interpreted to death by all manner of song stylists by now, an album of all-Dylan covers would seem a rather risky proposition, but Tim O'Brien proves more than up to the task with Red on Blonde. This