Big Back Forty - Bested
If nothing else, this debut from Columbus, Ohio, band Big Back Forty functions as a test case as to why it's probably not a good idea to solicit opinions before listening to a record. A friend of mine who lives in Columbus compared this quartet to the fantastic
Big Blue Hearts - Self-Titled
This San Francisco band signed Geffen last year within a month of playing its first live gig, and lead singer/songwriter David Fisher had never written a song until three years ago. Big Blue Hearts appear deserving of such attention based on this promising debut.
Big Blue Hearts is jammed
Bruce Henderson - The Wheels Roll
Bruce Henderson's backing band is the New York-based High Plains Drifters, an outfit that includes Saturday Night Live's G.E Smith (the one who looks like Skeletor) on guitar and Paul Ossola (the one who looks like Thoreau) on bass. To their credit, Smith and
J.J. Cale - Anyway The Wind Blows (2-CD Set)
Without J.J. Cale's songs and laconic guitar style, it's hard to imagine Eric Clapton having had much of a career in the '70s, and perhaps Mark Knopfler after him. "Cocaine", "After Midnight" and "Living On Tulsa Time" (the
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels - Live 1973
Originally released on vinyl by Sierra Records in 1982 and again in 1988 on CD, this third turn on reissue giant Rhino Records of a Gram Parsons radio show in Hempstead, Long Island, offers something special for both the hardcore Parsons fan and the newcomer. The songs are also presented
Phil Ochs - No More Songs (3-CD Set)
Midway through Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Chicago", the battle hymn of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just at the point where they're singing "We can change the world/Rear-range the world," the singer's voice cracks. And with it,