Chuck Prophet - Dreaming Waylon's Dreams
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
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac (Deluxe Edition)
In 1997, the most surprising thing about Whiskeytown's major-label debut was how quiet it was. The big-league polish, that much was expected -- but not its overall subdued tone. If Whiskeytown's mythically chaotic live shows back then evoked a liquor-driven bender, Strangers Almanac was the soundtrack
Keeping Anna Lee Company
She may be mythic to some, but Anna Lee Amsden also makes a tasty fried cornbread. She is serving it to hungry music fans in Woodstock, N.Y., one late Saturday night in early September as Levon Helm, her friend of 60-plus years, is gearing to perform just up the
Bo Diddley - I'm A Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958
If Chuck Berry molded his music from his love of jazz, country, pop and blues, Bo Diddley, who moved from McComb, Mississippi, to Chicago in 1934, retained a gutbucket earthiness blending overtones of the rawest Delta blues with sounds of the primitive Chicago street bands he played with as a
Merle Haggard - The Studio Recordings 1969-1976 /Bonnie Owens - Queen Of The Coast
By 1969, as this second completist six-disc box of his Capitol recordings begins, Merle Haggard was well-established as a smooth purveyor of working man's blues, from "Mama Tried" to "Sing Me Back Home". During the span of this extraordinary collection, Merle steps into history,
Mickey Raphael - Sacred harp
Willie Nelson is known for his distinctive voice, the tone of his rugged Martin guitar named Trigger, and for the harmonica played by that tall lanky guy who imbues his sound with a timeless, rootsy quality.
The man playing that harmonica is Mickey Raphael, the Family Band stalwart who has