Whiskeytown - Rural Free Delivery
North Carolina band Whiskeytown is nothing if not prolific. This eight-song EP (nine if you count the hidden bonus track) is just one of a number of recordings building up to this summer's release of their major-label debut album Sorry I Said Goodbye, a torrent that includes a
Ben Vaughn - Rambler '65
Ben Vaughn had a dream. No, he didn't want to change the world, he just wanted to record an album in his beloved 1965 Rambler American. So with an eight-track reel-to-reel in the back seat, an eight-channel mixing board in the front, an isolation booth in the sizable
Robert Earl Keen - Picnic
It was a telling statement that I recently saw attributed to Robert Earl Keen, the one in which he mentioned he "was kind of burned out on being the 'yuck, yuck, pluck, pluck' guy." Now, Keen has always been much more than just a funny singer-songwriter
The Alan Lomax Collection - Southern Journey (Vols. 1-6)
"The business of documenting the expressive culture of the world." That's how Anna Chairetakis Lomax describes her father's work. Is there anything quite like Alan Lomax's achievement, not just in the history of music, but in history, period? Remove his work and
A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt - Cactus Cafe (Austin, TX)
"HOUSEBOAT IN HEAVEN"
Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas, for the last time on Saturday, October 13, 1996. He died on January 1, 1997, the anniversary of the death of Hank Williams, one of his true heroes. During the radio tribute I did to
Guy Clark & Mickey Newbury - Old friends
It's a cloudy January afternoon when I first get Mickey Newbury on the phone. "How's the weather down there?" he asks. I'm in San Francisco, he's in Oregon, and we're both patiently awaiting what excitable weather reporters have