Kristin Hersh - Child is Mother to the Woman
"Because of the intimacy of their relationship, mothers [of the 19th-century South] inevitably influenced the songs that were learned and remembered by their children, the style and inflection of their singing, and the moral and aesthetic sense that may have shaped their future musical choices. Some songs were sung
Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - Bring the Family
"The old write memoirs, the young do resumes. In midlife we keep a kind of diary that always begins with a discussion of the weather. The present is where we live, equidistant from our birth and death....We see our history and future clearly. We sleep well, dream in
Eddie Hinton - Hard Luck Guy
Eddie Hinton was a lesser-known player in the Southern soul scene of the late '60s who made the most of his impact in the Muscle Shoals area. He wrote, played on, and produced some of the best songs from that period. After soul's tenuous musical union between
Tangletown - Ordinary Freaks
It's easy to get tangled up in this album's tale of two families without ever getting to the music. A primer: Tangletown leader Seth Zimmerman is the nephew of Bob Dylan and cousin to Jakob. The album is the first released on ex-Prince & the Revolution
Ware River Club - The Bad Side Of Otis Ave.
On their debut disc, Ware River Club moves effortlessly from rockin', stompin' bar-band fare to cry-in-your-beer country, with solid songwriting always a part of the mix.
Singer-songwriters Matt Herbert and Matt Cullen have assembled a crackerjack band of veteran musicians from the thriving New England alt-country scene. Drummer
Chuck E. Weiss - Extremely Cool
Eighteen years after his debut album, Los Angeles scenester Chuck E. Weiss is out to prove he is still extremely cool. So Weiss, the subject of an old Rickie Lee Jones song, has taken a few pages from the book of his friend Tom Waits, playing the part of a