Gene Clark - This Byrd Has Flown: The Essential Gene Clark
While he certainly wrote a handful of enduring classics as a member of the Byrds, it's surprising that Gene Clark has never been given the recognition for his solo work that the music so obviously deserves. Between 1966 (the year he quit the Byrds, at the peak of
Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich
Charlie Rich was always such a humble singer. He never showed off or drew attention to himself at the expense of the song. He caressed his lyrics; he worked his one-of-a-kind voice over the words so carefully, the better to feel their meaning, and then he let
Tim Lee - All That Stuff
Tim Lee was half of the Windbreakers, a Mississippi-based duo who released seven raggedly charming records in the '80s and early '90s. Lee and partner Bobby Sutliff's main gift was their ability to reveal, within a hook-laden pop framework, a welcome edginess when things
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs
If it's true that Bill Monroe invented bluegrass, it's equally true that it wouldn't have happened the way it did without guitarist/lead singer Lester Flatt and banjo player/baritone singer Earl Scruggs. As members of Monroe's 1946-48 Blue Grass Boys,
Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
This reissue of a 1993 live album was never intended to memorialize Townes Van Zandt (in the saddest of posthumous ironies, its Sugar Hill sleeve includes a phone number to call for bookings), but it'll do for now. Originally released by Sundown, a tiny Austin indie with limited
Lefty Frizzell - That's the Way Love Goes: The Final Recordings of Lefty Frizzell
Perhaps Lefty Frizzell knew he was getting ready to check out. By 1972, his emotional, financial and physical health was failing. He'd gone eight years without a top-10 hit, and Columbia, the label he had blessed with a flurry of hits in the '50s, let him