Tom Skinner - Times Have Changed / Bob Childers - Nothin' More Natural
In Oklahoma there is a spirited roots-oriented music that is simply referred to as red dirt music. The tag didnt come from any record company publicist or music journalist but from the musicians themselves, who all migrated to the college town of Stillwater, Oklahoma in the 70s and 80s.
Julie Doiron - Loneliest In The Morning
On her sophomore solo disc, Canadian songstress Julie Doiron comes out swinging -- not with fists, but from a porch swing on a Sunday morning. Formerly of disbanded pseudo-psychedelic popsters Eric's Trip, Doiron previously had released an album on her own label, Sappy, under the moniker of Broken
Red Star Belgrade - Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
One benefit of being a Neil Young acolyte is that you can be a follower and still head off in so many different directions. In general terms, Red Star Belgrade is Bill Curry's Ragged Glory band -- the one in which he lets the horses get a little crazy
Thousand $ Car - Big Shot
The debut album by New Orleans roots-rockers Thousand $ Car suggests this is probably one of the best bar bands in that neck of the woods. That said, Big Shot is not groundbreaking and doesn't hold much of the flavor I'm guessing these guys can emit
Kelly Joe Phelps - Roll Away The Stone
Listening to blues guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps' Roll Away The Stone is almost like eavesdropping; you're a fly on the wall of his Vancouver, Washington, home where he recorded the album on a four-track, accompanied only by his guitar.
Phelps began his musical career playing jazz,
Greg Garing - Alone
By wedding old-school country melodies and lyrics to the dance rhythms and textures of modern electronica, Greg Garing has managed to create one of the most innovative country-flavored albums in quite some time.
Garing brings plenty of rock-solid country credibility to the project. He played fiddle with