Chip Taylor - Seven Days In May...A Love Story
Two years ago, when I first wrote about Chip Taylor's return to songwriting and performing, I titled the story "When A Man Grows Older," borrowing the phrase from an obscure Italo Svevo novel about an older man's unrequited love for a younger woman. It
Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
Hollywood screenwriters in need of inspiration should take note of Lucy Kaplansky's story. After her teenage years singing in Chicago nightclubs, Kaplansky moved to New York City and fell in with a scene that included a veritable who's who of folky singer-songwriters, including Suzanne Vega,
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Live At The Cibolo Creek Country Club
Twenty or so years after dooming himself to forever being known as the guy who wrote "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother," Ray Wylie Hubbard delivered one of the best records of 1997, the stunning Dangerous Spirits.
Now comes this live CD, a willfully shaggy, casual affair that
Jim & Jesse - The Old Dominion Masters
Way back in 1972, when such things were almost unheard of, Jim & Jesse McReynolds started their own independent record label, Old Dominion. The duo had spent the 1960s recording for Epic; over the course of the decade, producers had adjusted their sound to suit the demands of country radio,
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Blackjack
Though hardly an unknown, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown has rarely been the beneficiary of the kind of elder-statesman adulation that has attended the waning years of John Lee Hooker. True, Brown's never had a hit the size of "Boogie Chillun", but more importantly, he&
Various Artists - The Complete Sun Singles, Vol. 6
The sixth and final installment in Bear Family's Complete Sun Singles series doesn't include any Sun records at all. The focus here, instead, is on Sun's sister label, Phillips International, and the 48 singles it released from 1959 to its demise in 1963.
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