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
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 brothers,
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
Ben Vaughn - Glasgow Time
After his commercial breakthrough providing the music for the hit TV series "3rd Rock From The Sun", singer-songwriter Ben Vaughn put his solo career on the back burner. Since the success of "Sun," he has written and performed the music for a dozen TV shows
Billy Joe Shaver - Freedom's Child
The hard part to remember now is that this man was once regularly described by many, himself included, as a rough-edged, brawling fight-picker and general maker of trouble.
It's hard because the 63-year-old performer we see onstage these days, the man reflected also in
Roadkill On The Three-Chord Highway: Art And Trash In American Popular Music
In this new collection, writer Colin Escott proves again that he has impeccable taste, a world-class record collection, and a fascination with the behind-the-scenes artistic choices and business dealings that, sometimes, transform mere records into hits.
If Roadkill On The Three-Chord Highway has a weakness, it&