J.J. Cale - Anyway The Wind Blows (2-CD Set)
Without J.J. Cale's songs and laconic guitar style, it's hard to imagine Eric Clapton having had much of a career in the '70s, and perhaps Mark Knopfler after him. "Cocaine", "After Midnight" and "Living On Tulsa Time" (the
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels - Live 1973
Originally released on vinyl by Sierra Records in 1982 and again in 1988 on CD, this third turn on reissue giant Rhino Records of a Gram Parsons radio show in Hempstead, Long Island, offers something special for both the hardcore Parsons fan and the newcomer. The songs are also presented
Phil Ochs - No More Songs (3-CD Set)
Midway through Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Chicago", the battle hymn of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just at the point where they're singing "We can change the world/Rear-range the world," the singer's voice cracks. And with it, my
Ernest Tubb - The Last Sessions -- All Time Greatest Hits
It's now 20 years since Ernest Tubb began work on his last sizable body of recorded material -- the First Generation label sides, 47 of them, cut between 1977 and 1981 under Pete Drake's production. Major labels, including his own (Decca, by then turned MCA), had
Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such '60s classics as "Dark End Of The Street", "Do Right Woman" and "I'm
Tom Russell - " But He's Big In Norway"
I met Tom Russell and his longtime guitar accompanist Andrew Hardin in 1981 in a cellar bar in Oslo, Norway. To my astonishment, they did a cover of a Gram Parsons song (at the time I thought I was the only person in Norway familiar with Parsons), and I shouted