Dwight Yoakam - Population: Me
Following an artist for any length of time involves putting up with some self-indulgence, since they've got to keep themselves interested enough to keep going. With rock bands, that might be in-concert drum solos or misguided solo projects. Jazz musicians invariably feel compelled to dabble in
Patty Loveless - On Your Way Home
Patty Loveless has been creating great country music for so long it's easy to take her for granted. It's been fifteen years now since her first big record (a cover of the 1967 George Jones hit "If My Heart Had Windows"), and damn near
Carl T. Sprague - Cowtrails, Longhorns & Tight Saddles: Cowboy Songs 1925-1929
Carl Sprague wasn't the first singing cowboy, but he was the first to have a hit single; "When The Work's All Done This Fall", his 1925 recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company, reportedly sold 900,000 copies in the years before the Great
Flight Of Mavis - Self-Titled
It's late '89 or early '90. I arrive at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 45 minutes before the start of a twin bill featuring Philly's Flight Of Mavis opening for Austin's the Reivers to find the club
Bob Neuwirth - Self-Titled
"Do I look like a loser?" Bob Neuwirth introduces himself amid a fanfare of trumpets (literally) in the opening bars of his 1974 solo debut. A loser, no -- but not exactly a winner either, this Sasquatch-sized footnote to American rock 'n' roll and folk music
Terry Allen - Amerasia
West Texas meets Southeast Asia in this reissue of an album long considered an oddball curiosity even within the curious career of Terry Allen. Something of a chicken-fried Renaissance man, the native Texan (long based in New Mexico) has earned acclaim extending from the fine-art galleries that house