John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves
The first song on John Prine's latest album is a cover of "(We're Not) The Jet Set". The original version, a 1974 hit for George Jones & Tammy Wynette, was bursting with jokes both lyrical (corny rhymes like "We're the old
Various Artists - Poor Little Knitter On The Road: A Tribute To The Knitters
The Knitters were little more than a pimple on a pimple on the face of rock 'n' roll history. Rising from the fertile club scene of mid-'80s Hollywood, the loose-knit crew seemed like a lost weekend among L.A. punks (X's John Doe,
Various Artists - Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949
The title of this collection of black string- and jug-band recordings isn't just a figure of speech. Every fiddle here talks, and not just as another voice within the instrumental ensemble, but as a voice that utters the words of the song -- the lyrics. Much as the
Bob Childers - Travelin' Woody's road
It's Sunday afternoon during the final hours of the five-day Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma. Bob Childers has spent the better part of the week holding court with everyone from journalists to polite town folks, members of the Guthrie family,
Anita Carter: 03/1933 to 07/29/1999
At the first, it must have seemed she hardly existed outside the arms of the energetic and surprisingly determined relatives everywhere around her. For a long time Anita Carter did not know that she'd been born (in March 1933) into a family that would be a legend. But
NRBQ - Self-Titled
This release celebrates NRBQ's 30th year as a band, and as a way of drawing things full circle, it has the same title (er, lack of title) as their debut, released in 1969. It's also their first full studio album since Al Anderson left the band