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
Richard Buckner - Devotion & Doubt
In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote "Song of 27", the album's final track, "as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family's characters. I abandoned the project
Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
"We claim Gram Parsons as our unholy ghost, minister of the shotgun wedding of country and rock 'n' roll long before the Eagles crashed the reception."
--No Depression Vol. 1, No. 1
If you accept this assertion, then Sweetheart Of The Rodeo is our Pentecost, the