Phil Ochs - No More Songs (3-CD Set)
Midway through Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Chicago", the battle hymn of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just at the point where they're singing "We can change the world/Rear-range the world," the singer's voice cracks. And with it,
Ernest Tubb - The Last Sessions -- All Time Greatest Hits
It's now 20 years since Ernest Tubb began work on his last sizable body of recorded material -- the First Generation label sides, 47 of them, cut between 1977 and 1981 under Pete Drake's production. Major labels, including his own (Decca, by then turned MCA), had given
Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such '60s classics as "Dark End Of The Street", "Do Right Woman" and "I'
Tom Russell - " But He's Big In Norway"
I met Tom Russell and his longtime guitar accompanist Andrew Hardin in 1981 in a cellar bar in Oslo, Norway. To my astonishment, they did a cover of a Gram Parsons song (at the time I thought I was the only person in Norway familiar with Parsons), and I shouted
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... In Memory of the Sundowners
To describe The Ranch as unlike any other place on earth would be misleading, for it was in fact very much like a great many other places: It was a country music bar. Like every country bar, the Double-R Bar (which was its official name, printed like a cattle
Porter Wagoner - Essential
Porter Wagoner is one of the most significant figures in the history of post-Hank Williams country music. Along with host Red Foley, Wagoner was a star on the legendary late-50s radio show Ozark Jubilee, which had Springfield, Missouri, challenging Nashville several years before Bakersfield got on the map.