Willard Grant Conspiracy - Flying Low
What began two years ago as friends giving a new home studio a trial by fire has blossomed into a genuine musical phenomenon. Flying Low, the sophomore album from Boston's Willard Grant Conspiracy, is a marvel of depth and atmosphere that references nearly every archly weird musical endeavor
James McMurtry - Walk Between The Raindrops
James McMurtry, stand-up comic? Well, not exactly, but the melancholic singer-songwriter actually has a funny little ditty, "Airline Agent", on his new album, Walk Between The Raindrops. Previously, McMurtry's wry wit tended to be hidden by his deadpan delivery. And his earlier records could
Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home
"I wish I had a blue guitar/A blue guitar to play all night long/Singing songs of loss and love/Singing songs...'til morning comes." "Blue Guitar", the second song on Miles From Our Home, typifies the Cowboy Junkies on several levels. The Junkies
Charlie Robison - Life Of The Party
Sure, Texas is the second-biggest state in the union, but is it really fair for them to have that many damn fine singer-songwriters? The Robison clan from the Central Texas town of Bandera managed to produce two of them -- Bruce and Charlie. Fresh on the heels of his
David Bromberg - The Player: A Retrospective
An important figure in the folk and rock scenes from the late 1960s until his retirement from performing in the mid-1980s, David Bromberg now builds violins for a living and performs infrequently. The Player serves as a first-rate primer for those not familiar with his work, as well
Bob Neuwirth - Back To The Front
How good are these forgotten, spare, living room recordings? Set against any singer-songwriter record in the ten years since its first appearance in 1988, the songs still shine like beautiful roadside bits of glass or chrome. The graceful ease of the sound owes, in part, to the not-quite-