Gene Vincent - The Road Is Rocky: The Complete Studio Masters 1956-1971
Gene Vincent as a father of roots-rock? Those aren't the terms in which he's usually discussed, but a look at his whole body of work from the perspective of 2005 sheds new light.
Meticulously engineered and all-encompassing, this completist extravaganza brings together everything the
Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
Everyone has a Chavez Ravine, if you live long enough to remember a place that only exists in the here and now as a memory. There are several in my life: a bucolic swimming hole that was paved over to be a parking lot, a rugged hillside topped with oaks
Jerry Lee Lewis - Country Songs For City Folks/Memphis Beat Another Place Another Time/She Still Comes Around The "Killer" Rocks On/Boogie Woogie Country Man
A friend tells me there are moments when he's all but convinced that Jerry Lee Lewis is the greatest country singer of them all. To champions of Connie Smith, say, or of Merle and George, or of Marty, Hank and Lefty, such a conclusion probably sounds a little
Bob Dylan / Merle Haggard / Amos Lee - Chiles Center, (Portland, OR)
I go to see Bob Dylan perform every chance I get. If Picasso were going to paint tonight in the public square and I could get a ticket to watch, I wouldn't miss that either.
Dylan shows are idiosyncratic, spontaneous and far more adventurous than those of most
Cooking In The House Of Cash -- At Home With Johnny, June And Mother Maybelle -- My 33 Years Inside The House Of Cash
If you're stuck for a wedding present, you could hardly go wrong with Cooking In The House Of Cash, a gift from one of the most dynamic marriages of our time. The June Carter and Johnny Cash household is the source and substance of this colorful collection of
John Darnielle - Where the truth lies
"I mostly feel honored to have been able to do for somebody else what music's always done for me: held my hand when I was walking down dark alleys and couldn't see my way out."
"People used to assume I was some crazed