Lucinda Williams - Self-Titled
One can only spend so many minutes kneeling on the floor, slipping CDs in and out of the player, before the subtle nuances fade into irrelevance. Lucinda Williams' third album has been remastered for reintroduction into the digital world, and is doubtless the better for that attention; certainly the
Sand Rubies - The Sidewinders Sessions
As with many roots-tinged rock 'n' bands who rose to prominence (at least in the underground) during the late '80s -- say, the Silos and Souled American, to name two others who just happen to be covered in this issue of No Depression -- what probably comes as
Earl Scruggs Revue - Artist's Choice: The Best Tracks, 19701980
Can this import really be the first CD retrospective of the Earl Scruggs Revue? Given the availability of virtually every note Earl Scruggs recorded as one-half of Flatt & Scruggs, it seems odd that it has taken eighteen years since the band's breakup for a compilation of
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
What a difference a few thousand dollars can make. Originally recorded three short years ago by an unknown North Carolina band as the debut offering from an unknown North Carolina label (Mood Food), Faithless Street had about it the raw, scared urgency of a band that wanted desperately to get
Robbie Fulks - Let's Kill Saturday Night
As soon as you hear the crunchy power chords of this album's opening title track, you know Saturday night isn't the only thing Robbie Fulks wants to kill. Like Wilco on Being There, Fulks wants to off our expectations too. So Let's Kill Saturday
Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings
In a recent concert, Gillian Welch wryly noted that a fan had brought to her attention a fact about herself she had never considered. Namely, that as a writer she has two great themes: flowers and death. If pressed for two words to describe Welch's latest offering, Hell