The driving “The Man Who Shook the World” rockets off Chuck Mead’s rockin’ and rollin’ new album, Close to Home. Rick Steff’s piano rolls and sways, Jerry Lee Lewis-like, under the propulsive guitars of Mead, John Paul Keith, and producer […]
Despite recent praise for freshly reissued collections by Alan Lomax and Harry Smith, the folk revivalists are often slighted by both rock and country music critics, who often cite their errors in aesthetic judgment and ideology, and their supposedly trivial […]
