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Way back in 1972, when such things were almost unheard of, Jim & Jesse McReynolds started their own independent record label, Old Dominion. The duo had spent the 1960s recording for Epic; over the course of the decade, producers had adjusted their sound to suit the demands of country radio,

Though hardly an unknown, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown has rarely been the beneficiary of the kind of elder-statesman adulation that has attended the waning years of John Lee Hooker. True, Brown's never had a hit the size of "Boogie Chillun", but more importantly, he&

The sixth and final installment in Bear Family's Complete Sun Singles series doesn't include any Sun records at all. The focus here, instead, is on Sun's sister label, Phillips International, and the 48 singles it released from 1959 to its demise in 1963. Most

First, the facts: These two CDs collect four of the most influential bluegrass albums ever made. For anyone with an interest in bluegrass (as opposed to an individual artist here and there), they are required listening. Why? Because Doyle Lawson and his bands created and elaborated on a new sound

By the standards of a business in which marketing campaigns are measured in years instead of weeks, and new records, even by cult artists, are dropped on us like major position papers, this is a modest effort: a mix of covers and fresh originals, studio tracks and live cuts, bound

One can only hope Gene Clark, peering in from eternity, is chuckling knowingly at the delays and complications that surrounded the release of this all-too-short retrospective. The final postponement, Polydor's dissolution of the U.S. A&M label, makes this one an import. It'