Dan Stuart – Arizona: 1993-95
Dan Stuart bounced back into view two years ago with his excellent recording, The Deliverance of Marlowe Billings. Long missing from action (apart from some sorties with revived Green On Red and Danny and Dusty line ups) he resurfaced in Oaxaca, Mexico with a tale to tell of suicidal leanings
Long Overdue Boz Scaggs Re-Master Brings ‘Sweet Release’
The contrast could not be greater between the muted dark brown cover of Boz Scaggs’ eponymous 1969 debut album and the golden melodies inside. On that cover stands a rumpled young singer-songwriter partially obscuring a nondescript doorway, an image that does little to beckon a casual observer to open
Nora Guthrie on Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty - Greystone Park Hospital Revisited
"Woody Guthrie's Wardy Forty," by Philip Buehler in Collaboration with Nora Guthrie and The Woody Guthrie Archives
Review and interview by Douglas HeselgraveWhen Nora Guthrie invited me to call her at her home to talk about ‘Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty’, I took it as a
Will Kimbrough's Sideshow Love
Sideshow Love takes all the pretty paper off the gift of love. Or, if we take the carnival metaphor a step further, it's love as the opposite of a roller coaster, the fun part first, hands up in the air, next to someone special, wind in your face,
Bow Thayer featuring Levon Helm – Spend it All
This album – with its spooky Nosferatu with a 1940’s cruiser cover -- was released independently in 2006 but, with the passing of the beloved Levon Helm – this album by Bow Thayer deserves another listen.
It’s almost like discovering new music by The Band – which would also qualify the three
The Bottle Rockets - "Bottle Rockets" / "The Brooklyn Side"
In 1994, St. Louis' Bottle Rockets sang about that “angry fat man on the radio (who) wants to keep his taxes way down low” in “Welfare Music,” one of the band's finest songs. Almost 20 years later, that radio guy is, if anything, fatter and angrier, and