Bashful Brother Oswald: 1911 to 2002
Beecher Ray "Pete" Kirby, known to country music fans as Bashful Brother Oswald, died October 17. He was 90.
Oswald was largely responsible for popularizing use of the dobro in country and bluegrass music, though in his long tenure as a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky
Rock And Roll Doctor: Lowell George
Lowell George's musical career was foundering when he died of a massive heart attack on July 29, 1979. He was only 34 and had lost control of Little Feat, the band he'd created in his image early that decade. Ironically, the group's commercial fortunes
Don Nix & Friends - Going Down: The Songs Of Don Nix
Don Nix has been the musical equivalent of a supporting actor in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He played saxophone with the Mar-Keys, one of the first successful acts on Stax Records; produced albums for Freddie King, Albert King and Delaney & Bonnie; and sang at
Jeffrey Foucault - Miles From The Lightning
Jeffrey Foucault is the bard of small-town anywhere, his poetry rich with the details of the claustrophobic yet oddly comforting centrifuge of the "five bar street in a one church town." His worn-in voice is like an old down jacket, frayed from field labor and gritted with sawdust
Marshall Family - The Legendary Marshall Family, Volume One
"Legendary" is right. "It was an ole time sound but a new sound," Ralph Stanley said after hearing the Marshall Family for the first time in 1974, and so it was. West Virginians by birth, Ohioans by immigration, the group -- mainly Judy and three younger
Dwight Yoakam - Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (4-CD box)
I gotta hand it to Dwight Yoakam, even if I'm turned off sometimes by what I see as his self-defeating posturing and pretensions (and relax, people, I already know mine's a minority position). I can't think of too many artists in any genre who