Walter Clevenger is to Nick Lowe what Dale Watson is to Merle Haggard, or what the music on Al Green’s latest album is to the music on Al Green’s old albums: a contemporary exemplar of a beloved but mostly long-gone […]
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Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs were a dynamic live act in early ’80s Los Angeles, but the band never went as far as contemporaries such as X, the Blasters and Los Lobos. After the death of Top Jimmy in […]
The Gossip combine the rootsy blues of their native Arkansas with the alt-rock sensibility of their current base in Olympia, Washington, creating an intoxicating sound. Though Movement is the group’s third release (and their second full-length) it’s the first that […]
After putting out seven records in eight years, the High Llamas went quiet for three years. They’re back with Beet, Maize & Corn, and befitting a hiatus from public endeavors, change is in evidence. The songwriting of Sean O’Hagan is […]
Listen up, all you cowpokes. It’s time to saddle up with Riders In The Sky and celebrate their 25th anniversary. That’s the whole point of their new album, Silver Jubilee. Ranger Doug (vocals, guitar), Woody Paul (fiddle, vocals), and Too […]
Bluegrass’ newest supergroup — it says so right on the CD — is composed of two Bluegrass Cardinals alumnae turned bandleaders (guitarist David Parmley and mandolin player Larry Stephenson), renowned bassist Missy Raines, Del McCoury Band fiddler Jason Carter, and […]
One of the world’s most formidable and original fingerstyle guitarists, Brit-born, New Orleans-based Martin Simpson turns his attention to the American south, land of constant musical miscegenation and imaginative license, and turns in the most urgent, bluesy recording of his […]
Those who have been fans of Kate Campbell for her penetrating songwriting as much for her compelling singing may be surprised to find that her new disc is almost all covers. Only one of the thirteen tracks is original — […]
On this smartly diverse debut, Austin’s Scott Gibson frequently brings to mind the work of some of his Texas singer-songwriter elders. The album-opening “I Believe” recalls Joe Ely at his punchiest, while “Sunday Social” could be Guy Clark at his […]
Lucero has shifted gears for its third full album. They have a new label and a new guitarist, and they’re producing themselves after two albums with the North Mississippi Allstars’ Cody Dickinson at the helm. Most of all, however, That […]
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