Kris Kristofferson - To beat the devil: intimations of immortality
Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making..." I say "Soul making," soul as distinguished from intelligence. There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions, but they are not souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself.
--
Bruce Robison - Breakfast of champions
Bruce Robison came bustling through the door...and brother, when a guy who's six-foot-seven bustles, he really bustles.
Robison was in mid-hue-and-cry as he entered the front room of his Premium Recording Service studio, lauding the performance of University of Texas quarterback Vince Young in UT's
Various Artists - Songs For Sixty Five Roses
Ask a young kid to say "cystic fibrosis," and what comes out is something like "65 roses"; thus the title of this disc. When longtime North Carolina music scene veteran John Plymale's daughter was diagnosed with the disease two years ago, he put together
Freddie King - Live At The Electric Ballroom, 1974
Freddie King's business card billed him as "The Texas Cannon Ball," a fitting moniker for the physically imposing blues guitarist and singer. King left an indelible stamp on the genre with both instrumental hits ("Hide Away", "San-Ho-Zay") and fiery vocal performances ("
Everly Brothers - The Price Of Fame (7-CD box)
Through the first half of the '60s, the period covered in this new Bear Family completist set, the hyper-talented brothers Everly endured waves of career and personal frustration, as this set's title suggests. They generally struck teen pop audiences and radio programmers as artifacts of the '
Van Morrison - Pay The Devil
No rock singer to emerge in the 1960s displayed more intensity, depth and subtlety than Van Morrison. From his formative years with Them through his early solo work, he poured all of himself into a song, whether it was the orgasmic "Gloria", the terrifying "T.B. Sheets&