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,
Ernest Tubb - The Last Sessions -- All Time Greatest Hits
It's now 20 years since Ernest Tubb began work on his last sizable body of recorded material -- the First Generation label sides, 47 of them, cut between 1977 and 1981 under Pete Drake's production. Major labels, including his own (Decca, by then turned MCA), had given
Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such '60s classics as "Dark End Of The Street", "Do Right Woman" and "I'
Tom Russell - " But He's Big In Norway"
I met Tom Russell and his longtime guitar accompanist Andrew Hardin in 1981 in a cellar bar in Oslo, Norway. To my astonishment, they did a cover of a Gram Parsons song (at the time I thought I was the only person in Norway familiar with Parsons), and I shouted