Graham Parker - Don't Tell Columbus
Graham Parker has been unfairly tagged as an angry young man who never grew past his venom-spewing days, but over the years, he's written and recorded some of the most tender declarations of love, some of the most earnest cries for connection, and some of the downright sweetest
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Calling
Mary Chapin Carpenter looks inward and outward on The Calling, a baker's dozen of original songs that is her first new album in three years. At 49, she's still on a quest for a place in the world, to borrow an earlier album title, be it
Po' Girl - Home To You
Po' Girl has the same womanly (not girlish, mind you) croon of the 1920s and '30s blues mamas -- yet their music isn't of another era, despite the banjo backing, woodsy clarinet licks and Wurlitzer. On their third album, Po' Girl -- which includes Trish
Southern Culture On The Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites
For pretty much the entirety of its two decades together, Southern Culture On The Skids has positioned itself as shameless champions of everything white trash. How bizarre, then, to discover that the veteran three-piece actually has impeccable taste. Singer-guitarist Rick Miller, flame-haired bassist Mary Huff, and drummer Dave Hartman may
P.F. Sloan - Measure Of Pleasure
With the exception of "Secret Agent Man", nearly all of P.F. Sloan's best-known songs appear on his mid-'60s Dunhill records. While Songs Of Our Times and Twelve More Times endure as classic folk-rock albums, and "Take Me For What I'm
Chris Knight - The Trailer Tapes
Somehow along about 1992, Chris Knight decided that the thing to do with the songs he'd been writing was to drive down to Nashville from Slaughters, Kentucky, where he worked as a strip mine reclamation inspector, and play them at the Bluebird Cafe. It worked, more or less.