Chip Taylor - Chip Taylor's Last Chance
Correctly believing 1973's Last Chance to be the best of his pre-comeback outings, Chip Taylor has taken the matter of reissuing into his own hands. It's not exactly a lost classic, but it is a simple, charming, and perhaps unintentionally revealing portrait both of the
Merle Haggard - The Land Of Many Churches
Merle Haggard's tributes to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills are well-known to contemporary fans, but few know that in 1971 Haggard recorded another one, an album he called "a sort of tribute to an old friend of mine, who is truly #1. Of course," he
Ray Charles - Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection
When Willie Nelson celebrated his 60th birthday with a televised bash in Austin a few years ago, his musical guests ranged from B.B. King to Bob Dylan to Lyle Lovett. All had come to pay homage to Nelson, but there was one other artist to whom both host and
Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
"Karen always seemed like a Gothic cathedral in ruins, and I always felt that I needed to restore her."
-- Peter Stampfel,
from the liner notes
Karen Dalton's voice bends and breaks, trembles with tension and curls itself round her banjo and guitar much like a cat
X - Beyond & Back: The X Anthology / The Blasters - American Music
If you were to hear the Blasters' "Marie Marie" and X's "Hungry Wolf" back-to-back, you might not think much connected them. One sounds as if it's coming from the neighborhood bar, the other from the garage of a broken
Oblivians - ...Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron
Ive never been much of a churchgoer. I grew up with a dearth of Christian spirituals in my household, having been raised in an ultra-reform Jewish family. Except for the annual family reunion in a teeny town outside of Montgomery, where my uncle owned the local Piggly Wiggly, I