Taj Mahal - In Progress & In Motion (1965-1998)
Say you're sick to death of blues -- same songs, same riffs, same endless, flavorless imitations by big white bands, same cynical pandering to tourists from exurbia. You need this box.
Don't take my word for it. Hook up to a listening post somewhere. Forswear for now
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Self-Titled
Since the folk revival of the 1950s, no two women have exerted as much influence within bluegrass and old-timey circles as Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. As pickers, producers, singers, arrangers, and leaders of their own string band, the duo -- who performed and recorded together from 1962 to 1975
Eddy Arnold - The Tennessee Plowboy And His Guitar
Eddy Arnold is the most successful performer ever to appear on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart. His sustained dominance included 43 Top Ten hits from 194551 alone. It is understandable if this comes as a surprise. Prior to the release of this five-CD set, it was impossible to
Bob Dylan - Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
And He said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him, but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man
Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman And Bernadette
"I just want to be Aaron Neville," deadpanned Vic Chesnutt, the consummate wag, on "Sad Peter Pan", a song from his 1995 album Is the Actor Happy? Here, one suspected, was Chesnutt -- a quirky cracker whose creaky warble is but a chirp compared to Neville'
Connie Smith: Too Cool to be Forgotten
By 1979, after slowly weaning herself off the road, Smith quit the business to stay at home with her kids, who now numbered five. Feminists painted her as a reactionary, as a successful woman who had forsaken her career. Looking back now, though, Smith’s decision seems a gutsy one;