Appleseed ranks among a handful of small record companies that put at least two things before profits: human values and musical quality. Those priorities come through loud and clear on Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a three-CD label sampler that […]
Longtime Pink Floyd member Richard Wright died a decade ago, and the group—whose other members have been feuding for years—disbanded in 2014. Interest in their music seems at least as intense now as it was when they were together, however, […]
He’s not the pompadoured wild man with rockabilly hiccups who fronted the Tuff Darts in the late ’70s. This Robert Gordon prefers to chronicle music, not perform it. Gordon’s first book was 1995’s It Came From Memphis. He won a […]
“I’d never been on stage before, and was looking out at the audience seeing people scream and cry and faint.” Regina McCrary wasn’t quite ready for the reaction to her live showbiz debut. Although she was an important voice in […]
It’s a good thing this Elmore James tribute was recorded at various studios across the country. After Bettye Lavette gets done with her contribution, everybody else would have wanted have wanted to slink out of the studio and pretend they […]
It’s Christmas season again. What to play? You could opt for yet another go-round with Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas,” Johnny Mathis’s “Sleigh Ride,” and the like, but how about—as Monty Python used to promise—something completely different? I’ve long owned a […]
Various – All Star Concert The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson Blackbird Presents Records & CMT Well, this tribute to Kris Kristofferson and his songs has about everybody in the Country music community on the stage at the […]
The Germany-based Bear Family label doesn’t tend to put words like “ultimate” and “super deluxe” in the titles of its box sets, but if any record company should be entitled to employ such adjectives, it’s this one. Its boxes are […]
God only knows where you’d find this jukebox with His Son’s stuff on it. He’s rockin’ it, as advertised, but even the whereabouts of the patrons dropping their quarters in this bad boy might be as hard to locate as […]
Mama Possum has had a buncha babies, and they’re all worrisome. But for those of us just listening in, the only thing worrisome about this ten-piece Fat Possum brood is which treasure to dive into first. R.L. Burnside, Reverend Gary […]
