Ben Vaughn - Vaughn Sings Vaughn, Vol. 1 & 2
Ben Vaughn has come full circle in his musical career. After starting out in the 1980s as a singer-songwriter fronting his own combo, he found success in the late 1990s doing soundtrack work for television, most notably "3rd Rock From The Sun" and "That '70s
Mark Knopfler - Kill to Get Crimson
Because he writes mostly character-driven songs, it's difficult to know just how much Mark Knopfler imbues a painter who lusts after more vivid colors in "Let It All Go" with his own attitudes and attributes. Yet it's easy to read into the song&
Moby Grape - Wow / Grape Jams / Moby Grape '69 / Truly Fine Citizen
If it weren't for speculation, our cultural imagination would be a far darker place. Moby Grape's debut appeared in 1967, and their final album came in 1969 (they reformed briefly two years later, and continued to do so with varying personnel over the decades). What if
Woody Guthrie - The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
On a hot summer's day in 1945, a 4-year-old boy, bored to death by droning speeches at a political picnic, was instantly entranced and electrified when the afternoon was changed from muted tones to vivid technicolor by a little man with big wiry hair who danced
Merle Haggard - Legends of American Music: Merle Haggard -- The Original Outlaw (3-disc set)
What we have here, in 60 tracks on three CDs, is the first career-spanning retrospective of Merle Haggard's hits and near hits, all the way back to "Sing A Sad Song" and "Swinging Doors" at the beginning, and, across labels, all the way
Dwight Yoakam - Dwight Sings Buck / Derailers - Under the Influence of Buck
Exactly twenty years have passed since Dwight Yoakam, playing the Kern County Fair, met his hero Buck Owens and coaxed him back onstage after years of semiretirement, leading to their 1988 #1 duet on "Streets Of Bakersfield" and a lasting, deep friendship. Beyond that, Yoakam consciously avoided recording