Baseboard Heaters - Fire down below
It's a typical follow-your-dream story. Rob Stroup was in tenth grade and Matt Brown in eighth when they started playing music together in the small town of Newberg, Oregon. Brown went off to Denton, Texas, for college, where he caught the live music bug following a local band
Latin Playboys - Dose
With this follow-up to the Latin Playboys' eponymous debut of five years back, David Hidalgo throws his virtual hat a little further into the visionary ring. On what amounts to a cosmic companion-piece to Houndog, the recent Hidalgo/Mike Halby collaboration, the ostensible Los Lobos leader is up to
Chip Taylor - Seven Days In May...A Love Story
Two years ago, when I first wrote about Chip Taylor's return to songwriting and performing, I titled the story "When A Man Grows Older," borrowing the phrase from an obscure Italo Svevo novel about an older man's unrequited love for a younger woman. It
Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
Hollywood screenwriters in need of inspiration should take note of Lucy Kaplansky's story. After her teenage years singing in Chicago nightclubs, Kaplansky moved to New York City and fell in with a scene that included a veritable who's who of folky singer-songwriters, including Suzanne Vega, John
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Live At The Cibolo Creek Country Club
Twenty or so years after dooming himself to forever being known as the guy who wrote "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother", Ray Wylie Hubbard delivered one of the best records of 1997, the stunning Dangerous Spirits.
Now comes this live CD, a willfully shaggy, casual affair that
Jim & Jesse - The Old Dominion Masters
Way back in 1972, when such things were almost unheard of, Jim & Jesse McReynolds started their own independent record label, Old Dominion. The duo had spent the 1960s recording for Epic; over the course of the decade, producers had adjusted their sound to suit the demands of country radio,