Gene Autry - Blues Singer 1929-1931: Booger Rooger Saturday Nite! / Riders in the Sky - Public Cowboy #1: The Music Of Gene Autry
While Gene Autry is best-known for his classic Western songs, it may surprise some of his fans to discover that at the beginning of his career, he was an unabashed Jimmie Rodgers imitator who sang the blues with gusto.
A number of the songs included on Blues Singer 1929-1931 are
Dennis Brennan - Iodine In The Wine
I have three friends who have yet to steer me wrong (at least with music). All are Boston-to-Nashville transplants, so when they each sang praises of Bostonian Dennis Brennan, I listened. They were right, again: Brennan's new Upstart disc mixes Motown, Buck Owens and the Rolling Stones in
Roger McGuinn - Live From Mars
Roger McGuinn's pick prints are all over the tableau of pop music. Those 12-string jangles and cosmic hooks were the stuff that ignited the psychedelic folk-rock era. And from acts as diverse as Tom Petty to R.E.M., he also informed much of the rock and pop
Gerald Collier - I Had To Laugh Like Hell
Former Best Kisser In The World Gerald Collier displays his wondrous aptitude for dark, acoustic-oriented pop songwriting on this solo debut, joining the ranks of expressive Pacific Northwest frontmen who also have made solo albums in an effort to cleanse their souls. Like Heatmiser's Elliott Smith and Mark
Chris Wall - Any Saturday Night in Texas
I first found out about Chris Wall a few years ago when Jerry Jeff Walker covered two of his songs on his Live At Gruene Hall record. Those songs reflected the two sides of Chris Wall's work. The first, "I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight", is
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings - High Or Hurtin'
Much of country music is about landscape and travel, the road serving as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. And if a country song is not about movin' on down the road, it's likely about hanging around honky-tonks. High Or Hurtin' speaks the