THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Satan Is Real
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS Satan Is Real / Handpicked Songs 1955-1962 Light In the Attic 075 www.lightintheattic.net CHARLES LOUVIN with BENJAMIN WHITMER Satan Is Real: The Ballad Of The Louvin … Continue reading →
Bruce Sylvester
Bruce Sylvester produces "Troubadour," a weekly roots-music program on WMBR-FM (Cambridge, MA) and www.wmbr.org. His travels have included Turkey, Morocco, most recently Prague and, numerous times, Spain. Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Zora Neale Hurston, Lars Saabye Christensen and Steve Earle are among his favorite authors.
REBECCA PRONSKY: Only Daughter
REBECCA PRONSKY Only Daughter Nine Mile Records 0142 www.ninemilerecords.com “I go deep where my demons sleep,” Brooklyn native Pronsky writes as she explores the underbelly of our existence. The nightime is her friend. The … Continue reading →
VARIOUS: Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At The Kennedy Center
VARIOUS Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At the Kennedy Center Legacy Recordings www.legacyrecordings.com Regardless of Eleanor Roosevelt’s attention to leftist music, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) might have been surprised to find Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … Continue reading →
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY: Red River Drifter
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Red River Drifter Red River 052 www.michaelmartinmurphey.com Martin Murphey’s origins provide a key to his music. “I grew up in Texas, the world’s number one musical crossroads where anything goes musically.” … Continue reading →
IAN TYSON: All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2
IAN TYSON All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2 Stony Plain 1367 www.stonyplainrecords.com When Ian & Sylvia split up in the early 1970s, Ian shifted from the duoâs northern hillbilly style to become a smooth … Continue reading →
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT: The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake Blackfeet Productions 93001 www.martharedbone.com/ With the knife guitar slashesâ ominous undertones that open this disc, we know that long-ago Londonâs bard, … Continue reading →
SIMON FELICE: Simon Felice
SIMONE FELICE Simone Felice Team Love 56 Team Love Web Site Simon Felice Web Site The quiet opening trackâs first sentence (with its protagonist born on the fourth of July to a cop and a … Continue reading →
WILLIE NELSON: Heroes
WILLIE NELSON Heroes Columbia/Legacy 88691960482 Columbia/Legacy Web Site Willie Nelson’s Web Site As on last yearâs Remember Me Vol. 1 with âThis Ole House,â Nelson â still prolific at 79 â can view mortality with … Continue reading →
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: The Grifterâs Hymnal
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD The Grifterâs Hymnal Bordello 12-003 Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Web Site âAt least we ainât Lazarus and have to think twice about dying,â the grizzled Hubbard philosophizes … and with song titles like … Continue reading →
NEW RIDERS of the PURPLE SAGE: (Two New Releases)
NEW RIDERS of the PURPLE SAGE Instant Armadillo Blues: Best of 1971-1975 Raven 345 Raven Records Web Site NEW RIDERS of the PURPLE SAGE 17 Pine Avenue Woodstock 0037 … Continue reading →