Amos Lee - Storied soul
"The worst thing for an artist to have done to you," Amos Lee submits, "is to be tagged as something, or not something. Or for a human being to be, for that matter -- unless you want to do it for yourself."
He's clearly
Sammi Smith: 1943 to 2005
For a time in the 1970s, it seemed Sammi Smith might join her friends Waylon and Willie in the Outlaw ranks and become one of the few females of the clan. Tragically, it never quite happened.
Jewel Fay Smith's family hailed from Oklahoma, but she was born in
South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles: Not Until The Operation's Through
In terms of channeling ambition into strange nooks and crannies, Will Oldham and Conor Oberst might have nothing on Will Johnson. As with those other eccentrics, Johnson's prolific songwriting spills over from his main band (Centro-matic) into side projects. But neither Oldham nor Oberst has recorded an entire
Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
It's easy to see how, if a song you wrote served as the primary inspiration for a movie -- as Aimee Mann's "Deathly" did for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, the soundtrack of which was fleshed out with more of Mann's
Maria McKee - Peddlin' Dreams
Within the wistful romantic reverie of the folkish, album-opening "Season Of The Fair", the first words from Maria McKee are "Will you remember me?" She sings the song to a former lover, yet she could just as easily be addressing the question to the audience that
Various Artists - Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country
In the liner notes to this 24-song anthology, compiler Jonathan Fischer shares history and insights that overlap with such works as Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A., Barney Hoskyns' Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted, John Lomax III's Nashville: Music City USA