Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
I still remember the dreary January afternoon, ten years ago, when Grant showed me the mock-up of the cover of ND #14. It was the day before the magazine was due at the printer and I was helping with some last-minute proofreading. When I saw the words "
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.
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
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
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