Sky Kings - From Out Of The Blue
Considering their musical pedigree, its amazing the Sky Kings were never allowed to take flight. Bill Lloyd (Foster & Lloyd), John Cowan (New Grass Revival), Rusty Young (Poco) and occasionally Pat Simmons (Doobie Brothers) convened in 1991, recorded two full albums for two labels (RCA Nashville and Warner Bros.), played
Jon Wayne - Two Graduated Jiggers
It's been fifteen years since Jon Wayne released the infamous cult album Texas Funeral. Drunken, comic, brilliant and thoroughly dedicated to the Lone Star State in songs such as "Texas Wine", "Texas Cyclone" and "Texas Jailcell", the album was country of the
Drive-By Truckers - Alabama Ass Whuppin'
Not that they were ever a shy and retiring bunch, but when the Drive-By Truckers first started visiting my neck of the North Carolina woods four years ago, their shows did have the random pedal steel-calmed moment. These days you'll find frontguy Patterson Hood, under a
Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis - You Win Again
Linda Gail Lewis, never really a star singer in her own right, remembered almost exclusively for duets with her incendiary older sibling Jerry Lee, has been way off the charts in the United States for a long time. But she can pump a mean, mean piano in the Lewis boogie
Various Artists - Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection 1960-2000
You can have your recording studio, give me a field recorder any day of the week. Take the high technology and the complex sounds sculpted by sonic scientists in the hermetically sealed engineer's booth and on the sanitary hard drive, take 'em on down to the river
Willie Nelson - Milk Cow Blues
From its three years of incubation in Austin through its belated release on Island, this project has carried the generic tag of "Willie Nelson's blues album." The description is accurate as far as it goes. Yet ultimately it is no more helpful in mapping the sophisticated