Sam Bush - Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride
Sam Bush's work with New Grass Revival provides substantial evidence of his vision, both in his choice of bandmates and the breadth of his musical boundaries. This new live album, recorded at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, combines his more recent solo work, while featuring NGR alumni Bela Fleck
Slobberbone - Everything You Thought was Right was Wrong Today
Not since the heyday of acts such as Jason & the Scorchers has there been such authentic roadhouse rawk as Slobberbone shows here. The Denton, Texas, band, along with cohorts such as Georgia's Drive-By Truckers, carry on the born-in Southern tradition nicely, continually finding their salvation more in
Steve Goodman - Live Wire
Best-known for his songs that were recorded by others (including Jimmy Buffett, Arlo Guthrie and David Allan Coe), Steve Goodman released a long string of excellent albums of his own before dying of leukemia in 1984. Many of them have now been reissued on his Red Pajamas label through John
Jack Butwell - I Love Florida
I'm guessing that most people who read the above name and title have heard of only the state, but not the man who loved it. Some facts are in order: Canadian Jack Butwell moved to the Sunshine State in 1960. In keeping with the traditional family business of
Hensley Sturgis - Open Lanes
As the name suggests, Barry Hensley and Jason Sturgis each wrote and sang lead on half of this disc's twelve songs. While you might think this would result in a schizophrenic record, Open Lanes is remarkably cohesive. Both halves of the Columbus, Ohio, duo tend to write relationship
Blue Rodeo - The Days In Between
Toronto's Blue Rodeo was hailed as a promising young roots-conscious rock band early in its career, but more than a decade later, they've yet to make any major dent in the U.S. (though they were one of Canada's biggest-selling bands of the 1990s)