Various Artists - The Songs Of Jimmy Rodgers: A Tribute / Various Artists - Stone Country: County Artists Perform The Songs Of The Rolling Stones / Various Artists - One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs Of Bruce Springsteen
Tribute albums have become such an established genre that many record stores now organize them in their own separate department. I was in one used record store recently where the tribute section took up a quarter of the store. There's a good reason for that: Most tribute records
Steve Earle - El Corazon
Artists tend to work over safety nets that appear suspiciously like a charred mattress, hose-soaked at the edge of an unmowed lawn, a crowd on the corner standing and pointing. Reasons to fail, these are. Reasons to quit, to borrow from Willie Nelson. Excuses. There's safety in that,
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
Nearly 35 years after he first sang those words, Bob Dylan finds himself tormented by those two conflicting emotions. Indeed, on Time Out Of Mind, Dylan resembles the psychotic preacher played by
Down On The Farm - Gribsroed Farm (Halden, Norway)
As I drive my car up the Enningdal valley towards Gribsroed Farm, behind a horse and carriage filled with already half-drunk loafers in cowboy hats, I realize this is probably as close to a hillbilly highway as you can get in Norway. Gribsroed Farm is situated in a sparsely populated
Satchel's Pawn Shop - They may catch up with you
Louisville is best-known as a sports town. It's the home of the Kentucky Derby, the renowned Louisville Slugger baseball bats are made there, the University of Louisville has a fine men's basketball team, and it's the birthplace of Muhammad Ali. Until recently, the music
Michael Parrish Band - Don't shoot me, I'm not the piano player
Anyone who ever did hang time with the late Townes Van Zandt has tales to tell, and Michael Parrish is no exception. First time they met, at a mid-'80s Townes gig in New England, where Parrish was then the piano-playing half of a country blues duo called the