Donner Party - Complete Recordings 1987-1989
By way of introduction: Quasi is one of the best bands in existence today. According to me. So there! Sam Coomes is the primary singer and songwriter in Quasi, but the abilities of drummer/singer/songwriter Janet Weiss can not possibly be overestimated, because Quasi is a band. And so
Jody Stecher - Going Up On The Mountain
As though more evidence were needed, this reissue makes plain the fascinating consequences of the folk revival. Jody Stecher came of age during the second-wave revival of the '60s, taking Ralph Rinzler's slot as mandolinist in the Greenbrier Boys and then joining David Grisman in the New
Neil Young - Silver & Gold
Neil Young's 29th album begins to describe itself, not far from its end.
"The flash of a distant camera, reconnecting thoughts and actions...Fragments of our missing dream, pieces from here and there...Fall in place along the line, disappearing between you and me..."
A Neil
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
Depending on how you keep track -- that is, depending on how tight you want to wear your documentarian-geek beanie -- Transcendental Blues is Steve Earle's tenth album. Beginning in 1986, he blew the doors off Nashville with Guitar Town, blew their cover with Exit 0, and blew
Harry Smith - Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four
Indulging his discursive wont, Greil Marcus breaks from Invisible Republic's examination of Dylan's storied Basement Tapes to excavate the remains of a forgotten frontier town, Smithville. Peopled by card sharks and confidence men, vengeful lovers and bewildered cuckolds, bombastic holy men and salt-of-the-earth farmers, Smithville is
Bottle Rockets - Lakeside Lounge (Raleigh, NC)
Three guys half an arena away -- one behind a small fortress of keyboards, one riding a revolving drum set, and one standing on an Oriental rug -- and two cannons. That sums up my first-ever concert: Emerson, Lake & Palmer on the "Pirates" tour. Twenty-five years later