Mac, Doc & Del/ Doc & Merle Watson - Home Sweet Home
Among traditional American country blues singers and guitar players, Doc Watson is without peer. When he sings in his unadorned baritone, it is as if the entire Anglo-Saxon folk tradition had been fermented in the Appalachian Mountains only to be channeled through him.
Doc has been recorded and honored
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Willie Nelson must have been one tortured soul back when he was making his mark as a hit songwriter in the early 1960s. What, other than untold anguish, could have produced the likes of "Darkness On The Face Of The Earth", "Home Motel", and "I&
The Band - Jubilation
Jubilation stands apart from The Band's other post-Robbie Robertson/Richard Manuel releases for the way, once again, rich worlds are revealed in each song. Recorded in Levon Helm's converted Woodstock barn, the settings are mostly acoustic, but full of live rock 'n' roll
Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache
The unexpected success of Loudon Wainwright III's 1972 bluegrassy novelty tune, "Dead Skunk", put unwanted pressure on the singer. And, as Wainwright says in the liner notes to the recent reissue of his first post-Skunk album, his attempt to capitalize on the popularity of his
Taj Mahal - In Progress & In Motion (1965-1998)
Say you're sick to death of blues -- same songs, same riffs, same endless, flavorless imitations by big white bands, same cynical pandering to tourists from exurbia. You need this box.
Don't take my word for it. Hook up to a listening post somewhere. Forswear for now
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Self-Titled
Since the folk revival of the 1950s, no two women have exerted as much influence within bluegrass and old-timey circles as Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. As pickers, producers, singers, arrangers, and leaders of their own string band, the duo -- who performed and recorded together from 1962 to 1975