Eddie Hinton - Hard Luck Guy
Eddie Hinton was a lesser-known player in the Southern soul scene of the late '60s who made the most of his impact in the Muscle Shoals area. He wrote, played on, and produced some of the best songs from that period. After soul's tenuous musical union
Tangletown - Ordinary Freaks
It's easy to get tangled up in this album's tale of two families without ever getting to the music. A primer: Tangletown leader Seth Zimmerman is the nephew of Bob Dylan and cousin to Jakob. The album is the first released on ex-Prince & the
Ware River Club - The Bad Side Of Otis Ave.
On their debut disc, Ware River Club moves effortlessly from rockin', stompin' bar-band fare to cry-in-your-beer country, with solid songwriting always a part of the mix.
Singer-songwriters Matt Herbert and Matt Cullen have assembled a crackerjack band of veteran musicians from the thriving
Chuck E. Weiss - Extremely Cool
Eighteen years after his debut album, Los Angeles scenester Chuck E. Weiss is out to prove he is still extremely cool. So Weiss, the subject of an old Rickie Lee Jones song, has taken a few pages from the book of his friend Tom Waits, playing the part of a
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions
January 1971. The scenario is bleak. Our subjects are a bunch of greasy longhairs from Jacksonville, Florida, who live in tents and catch their own fish for dinner. After slumming it on the Florida club circuit for a couple years, they finally secure some studio time, only to see their
Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadours - The Complete Live 1965 Show
This live recording of Ernest Tubb captures the country music legend well past his commercial peak of the 1950s, but still completely in charge of his distinctive voice. A year later he would be diagnosed with emphysema, a disease that took his life in 1984.
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