Souled American - Honing the art of self-cultivation
"You can magnify beauty, take it apart, see how it got to be so damn pretty. You take a song and you look at it real close, and what happens? Well, first of all, you have to slow it down a bit to really hear what's going
Emmylou Harris - Lookin' for the water from a deeper well
Emmylou Harris' latest release is a nearly accidental album. "Unplanned" as she puts it, Spyboy -- which came out Aug. 11 on Eminent Records -- began solely as an attempt to get a really good live-in-concert version of Daniel Lanois' "The Maker" as a
Whiskeytown / Neko Case - Highway 145/ My 63
Another big little idea from Bloodshot, the folks whove criss-crossed the nations byways seeking evidence of country music insurgencies, this split single straddles contrasting anecdotes in the epic love affair between North Americans and their cars.
Whiskeytowns Highway 145 is one of those songs you recognize the first time
Various Artists - Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf
Nina Gerber, Kate Wolf's longtime friend and musical collaborator, is an accomplished, versatile guitarist, and one of the most respected accompanists and arrangers in acoustic music today. For some time, Gerber has contemplated making a solo album. While compiling material, she realized that the enormous influence Wolf had
Johnsons - Odessa
It's a little curious to come across an album with 11 musician credits that still sounds like a Texas singer-songwriter record, with traces of and nods to Guy Clark ("Hallowed Ground"), Townes Van Zandt ("Adios Colorado" and "Between The Moon And Memphis&
Paul K - A Wilderness Of Mirrors
The "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" banner across the top of the cover is either a sardonic jab at the trend of best-selling faux-"soundtracks" (i.e., music "inspired" by, but not included in, said film), or a desperate attempt to sell the thing