King Radio - Mr. K Is Dead, Go Home
Fronted by singer-songwriter-guitarist Frank Padellaro (who used to play bass in the Scud Mountain Boys' road band), Boston's King Radio debuts with a mercurial set of pop-rock that rolls easily from tune to tune and style to style. Whatever they're up to,
Peggy Seeger - Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men And Women
"Men, watch out! There's dangerous women everywhere!/Boy, beware! There's violent females everywhere!/You read about rippers and rape in the news/Then you hear the clatter of high-heeled shoes." So goes Peggy Seeger's "B-Side". If your gig
Dolly Parton - Hungry Again
The descent from Dolly Parton's last visit home, the gaudy 1994 album Heartsongs -- overblown, overproduced, overcrowded, and altogether every bit larger-than-life as Parton herself -- to the stripped-down, live-to-DAT musical framework of Hungry Again might give a lesser mortal nosebleed. But in this effort
Mac, Doc & Del/ Doc & Merle Watson - Home Sweet Home
Among traditional American country blues singers and guitar players, Doc Watson is without peer. When he sings in his unadorned baritone, it is as if the entire Anglo-Saxon folk tradition had been fermented in the Appalachian Mountains only to be channeled through him.
Doc has been recorded and honored
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Willie Nelson must have been one tortured soul back when he was making his mark as a hit songwriter in the early 1960s. What, other than untold anguish, could have produced the likes of "Darkness On The Face Of The Earth", "Home Motel", and "I&
The Band - Jubilation
Jubilation stands apart from The Band's other post-Robbie Robertson/Richard Manuel releases for the way, once again, rich worlds are revealed in each song. Recorded in Levon Helm's converted Woodstock barn, the settings are mostly acoustic, but full of live rock 'n' roll