Various Artists - Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
As memories are sneaky, self-absorbed creatures who often excuse themselves from context in order to join the family photo albums, approaching a tribute album project -- one of nostalgia's natural breeding grounds -- on Bruce Springsteen, it would be tempting to overlook 1982's dark Reagan-era Nebraska
Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic - South Park Meadows (Austin, TX)
You've been commissioned to organize Willie Nelson's annual Texas picnic. What's the first thing you do?
You get the beer.
But somewhere in the chain of command, that license was forgotten, and Willie's 27th picnic -- which was to return to Dripping Springs,
Porter Wagoner - The Thin Man
"Mama said I used to go out in the yard when I was around nine or ten years old. My dad had cut down this big oak tree and left a stump there, and Mama said I'd get up on that stump and pretend I was onstage,
Pops Farrar - An old folk singer lays it down
Those seeking a further understanding of Jay Farrar's pungent, elliptical poetry will find no clear answers in the work of his father, James Paul "Pops" Farrar. Rather, they will discover a different kind of artist altogether, a wise and weathered vagabond dreamer, a sweet and salty
John Hiatt - Clear as Muddy
Even if you've never seen him do the GQ as the suit-and-tied host of PBS' "Sessions At West 54th", you may find it difficult to picture John Hiatt a-sittin' and a-rockin' on his back porch playing his perfectly good
Emma Gibbs Band - Grandmothers of invention
When Emma Gibbs allowed her grandson and his buddies to practice at her house, she probably had no idea they would decide to thank her by naming their band after her. The material they worked on there eventually became Seven Even, their second self-released album, produced by John Keane