Marty Robbins - Marty After Midnight
Few country performers -- few performers, period -- have been blessed with the kind of talent and taste that Marty Robbins had. He could do it all, and thus never saw any reason why he shouldn't. Robbins recorded honky-tonk and postwar country, teen-dream pop, western, rockabilly, Nashville Sound,
Jim Ford - Harlan County
Gram Parsons left the Byrds after making Sweetheart Of The Rodeo in hopes of achieving a synthesis of country, soul and rock 'n' roll he dubbed "Cosmic American Music." He realized that vision twice -- first, with the Flying Burrito Brothers, on The Gilded Palace Of
Dock Boggs - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (192729)
With the release of this compilation, John Fahey's project label has returned to print the late-'20s recordings of Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (18981971), the Appalachian singer and banjo player from western Virginia whose voice could curdle strong beer and whose preoccupations with violence and
Various Artists - Black Banjo Songsters
These 32 tracks of deep, nearly-forgotten hill music represent a curious intersection of rural African-American and European-American sounds. Most folks interested in the roots of American music know that modern banjo evolved from an African gourd instrument, that the clawhammer style of playing can be traced back to the mother
Various Artists - From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music (3-CD set)
"I want to show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm & blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll are really all just one thing. Those are the American music [sic] and that is the American culture."
-- Etta James
In many quarters, no doubt, Etta James' claim
Various Artists - The Horse Whisperer (soundtrack)
The first sounds that hit you from the Horse Whisperer soundtrack are a fat, Tejano-style accordion riff and yodeling. So far, so good. What we have here is Dwight Yoakam singing "Cattle Call", which is something I always wanted to hear without quite being aware of it. This