Various Artists - The Q People: A Tribute To NRBQ
Since its formation in 1967, NRBQ has been a champion of roots music in the broadest sense of the term, well before the genre had a name. They've covered jazz legend Sun Ra ("Rocket #9") and collaborated on albums with Carl Perkins and Skeeter Davis.
That
Little Richard - Get Down With It!: The Okeh Sessions
In 1966, Little Richard was in the same boat as most of the others who had invented rock 'n' roll little more than ten years earlier -- washed ashore by the British invasion, by changing tastes, and by the inability to either get with the times or make
Roger McGuinn - Self-Titled / Peace On You
The Byrds at their artistic peak were a fractious band with an uneasy chemistry, unable to sustain a balance for any significant duration. They were not alone in this. Some of the era's other important bands had equally volatile combinations of personalities and inclinations, creating pivotal works but
Rooftop Singers - The Best of the Vanguard Years
Christopher Guest's 2003 satirical film A Mighty Wind affectionately spoofed three real-life '60s folk luminaries: the Kingston Trio (the Folksmen), the New Christy Minstrels (New Main Street Singers) and the duo of Ian & Sylvia (Mitch & Mickey). Satirizing the Rooftop Singers wouldn't have been
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Give the young woman with the pleasing smile some serious credit.
The pressure to simply supply Come Away With Me -- Again, with all of that moved-to-New York ambience merely replicated, or even exaggerated, must have been enormous. But Feels Like Home is as much a turn in another direction
Graham Parker - Your Country
Always the outsider, the inscrutable observer who keeps his distance behind those sunglasses, Graham Parker stakes out familiar territory on an album promoted as a new direction. Your Country, he calls it. Not My Country or Graham Parker's Country, but America's country music, the music of