Ozark Mountain Daredevils - The Car Over The Lake Album
Don't buy The Car Over The Lake Album if you're looking to make any sense out of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. What on earth were these guys thinking back in 1975, when they followed the Top 5 rock radio success of "Jackie Blue" with
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline: The Lambert & Potter Sessions, 1975-1976
Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy and Bloodline, originally released by Capitol in 1975 and '76, respectively, represent both a highpoint for countrypolitan and the beginning of the genre's sad, slow, painful decline. You could say something similar about the roles they played within Campbell's
Allison Moorer - Miss Fortune
It's no wonder Allison Moorer tagged along with producer Tony Brown when he left MCA Nashville to launch the putatively hipper Universal South imprint. Moorer made two albums of consummately soulful music under Brown's watch at MCA, but even though "A Soft Place To Fall&
Elvis Presley - Today, Tomorrow & Forever
A quarter-century after the death of Elvis Presley, aren't "All Selections Previously Unreleased" the scariest words RCA could possibly affix to yet another tombstone box? Yet there's a cumulative significance to this collection of 100 false starts, alternate takes, home demos and live
Dr. Ralph Stanley's Memorial Bluegrass Festival - Hills of Home Park (Coeburn, VA)
The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of "O Death" from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town from Hollywood to New York to Nashville. Stanley&
Chuck Prophet - The beating heart
On Chuck Prophet's gripping 2000 album The Hurting Business, one track stood out from the rest. On "Dyin' All Young", amidst a soulful but depressed groove, Prophet sang of a mother's anguish upon discovering her son's fatal drug overdose. "Something