Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart
If Adieu False Heart comes across a little genteel, it's far from soft-headed. The singing is superb: Linda Ronstadt remains one of pop's most lucent vocalists, while Ann Savoy (who has done fine work in the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band) proves a remarkable soloist and duet partner.
Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
These days emerging artists arrive at the marketplace wrapped in myths of origin and self-discovery that too often double as prisons of real and alleged influences. In the case of Ray LaMontagne, he of the roar redolent of a bear with its paw in a trap, press clips insist that
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Legends Of Country Music (4-cd Box)
You'd think that when it comes to Bob Wills' music, there'd be no surprises left. Oh, sure, somebody's bound to turn up another live set somewhere along the way, or something like that. But the most important -- and most typical -- Wills
Kingston Trio - The Essential
With the passage of many years, well-considered opinions frequently become prejudices, unless freshened by re-examination. I remember quite well that I disliked the Kingston Trio's music, but for the life of me I can't say why, except that they weren't "ethnic" enough
Eddie Tickner
Manager EDDIE TICKNER succumbed to leukemia May 2 in Tucson, Arizona. He was 78. Over his long career he had worked with the Byrds, Emmylou Harris, Odetta, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, and, most recently, the Hacienda Brothers.
Bonnie Owens: 1929 to 2006
On the live performance that makes Merle Haggard's 1970 Fightin' Side Of Me album, he introduces then-wife and harmony singer Bonnie Owens. She momentarily fumbles the lyrics of Woody Guthrie's "Philadelphia Lawyer", but recovers beautifully at the end. Haggard, seeing she's