Ray Price - The Other Woman
Ray Price's chart career usually gets talked about as if it has two distinct periods. First there are the great honky-tonk years that included masterpiece singles such as "Crazy Arms", and then there's his crappy, post-"Danny Boy" countrypolitan hits like
Dwight Yoakam - A Long Way Home / Various Artists - Will Sing For Food: The Songs Of Dwight Yoakam
Quick -- name three Dwight Yoakam songs.
Not as easy as you'd think, is it? Nothing against the man's songwriting abilities, but let's face facts here: "Songwriting" is not the first word that leaps to mind when one ponders the components of the
Jim & Dave Boquist - 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)
"We thought there might be about 50 people here," said Jim Boquist. Guess again. The small 400 Bar was flirting with an over-capacity crowd, maybe five times what Jim and his brother Dave had expected. The doorman was turning people away even before the Boquists hit the
Greg Garing's Alphabet City Opry - 9C (New York City, NY)
Greg Garing's otherworldly voice nearly overtakes his bone-thin luminosity, soaring sweet and achingly powerful, then dipping in a hushed outcast cry. "Blues In My Heart" perfectly collapses any resistance to hillbilly music. When "old-timer" Ward Verity joins at the single mike, the
Liquor Giants - Every Other Day At A Time
That Ward Dotson sure is a versatile son of a Gun Club. In addition to serving in the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce's swamp-bluesy outfit, Dotson co-founded the appealingly Stonesy Pontiac Brothers and played in both the Hello Strangers and girl-group revivalists the Pussywillows. His current
Lou Ford - Sad, But Familiar
Neither a solo artist nor a car dealership, Lou Ford is a Charlotte, North Carolina, quartet whose "So Far Gone" was arguably the highlight of the Revival compilation of Carolina-region roots bands. (For those who might care, the band is named after a character in a Jim