David Bromberg - The Player: A Retrospective
An important figure in the folk and rock scenes from the late 1960s until his retirement from performing in the mid-1980s, David Bromberg now builds violins for a living and performs infrequently. The Player serves as a first-rate primer for those not familiar with his work, as well
Bob Neuwirth - Back To The Front
How good are these forgotten, spare, living room recordings? Set against any singer-songwriter record in the ten years since its first appearance in 1988, the songs still shine like beautiful roadside bits of glass or chrome. The graceful ease of the sound owes, in part, to the not-quite-
Dick Curless - The Drag 'Em Off The Interstate, Sock It To 'Em Hits Of Dick Curless
One of the titans of trucker-country, Dick Curless was a curious bird: a proud but broken man; a high school dropout who could convey loneliness and regret with all-too-real eloquence; a Yank from Fort Fairfield, Maine, who used words like "tickled" and "reckon"
Lucinda Williams - Self-Titled
One can only spend so many minutes kneeling on the floor, slipping CDs in and out of the player, before the subtle nuances fade into irrelevance. Lucinda Williams' third album has been remastered for reintroduction into the digital world, and is doubtless the better for that attention; certainly the
Sand Rubies - The Sidewinders Sessions
As with many roots-tinged rock 'n' bands who rose to prominence (at least in the underground) during the late '80s -- say, the Silos and Souled American, to name two others who just happen to be covered in this issue of No Depression -- what probably comes as
Earl Scruggs Revue - Artist's Choice: The Best Tracks, 19701980
Can this import really be the first CD retrospective of the Earl Scruggs Revue? Given the availability of virtually every note Earl Scruggs recorded as one-half of Flatt & Scruggs, it seems odd that it has taken eighteen years since the band's breakup for a compilation of