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Somewhere along the way, Steve Earle started talking about his albums in terms of which box they fit in. "This is gonna be a bluegrass record," he'd say, or "Next time I'm gonna make a rock record." Trouble is, Earle's

Depending on how you categorize Aretha Franklin (and with P.J. Harvey and Corin Tucker classified as works-in-progress), Bonnie Raitt stands as the rock era's pre-eminent female artist. In part, her achievement is simply a function of longevity; few women have braved rock 'n&

The Blasters have been particularly ill-served during the digital era — a ’97 reissue of their barely-indie debut and Warner’s overly expedient, long out of print 20-track summation The Blasters Collection — that is, until now. Testament is an exemplary package, collecting their entire Slash catalog (as advertised)

Willy Vlautin, Richmond Fontaine's singer and guitarist, writes songs with the precision and compression of great short stories. His spare and evocative words slip into the skins and minds of his outsider narrators with shape-shifting agility. Winnemucca, the Portland, Oregon, band's latest album, is haunted

John Trudell is one of the few recording artists who would include a review by the FBI among the blurbs in his press material -- right between kind words from Bonnie Raitt and a rave from the LA Weekly. "Extremely eloquent," some unidentified G-man wrote. Somehow it'

Release of this glance at the formative years of Waylon Jennings' career was slated well before anyone knew the disc would arrive just after the sad news of his passing. The timing only makes hearing these sides, recorded for a variety of labels long before the Outlaw years, all