LABEL: RHINO RATING: 5 STARS  The Tony Joe White mother lode has arrived. Warner Archives was on the ball in the ‘90s with a round of reissues for his three seminal early albums-Black and White, …Continued, and Tony Joe-originally released on Nashville’s hip alternative label, Monument Records. And now, Swamp Music goes above and beyond [...]

Never has there been a country music encyclopedia as visually lavish and likely to induce readers to dip into it again and again just for the looking as this new 360-page treasure-trove.

George Harrison’s Chord-Probing Spiritualism.

An interview with Josh Turner

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Cold Wars Kids are the first to admit that, for them, style is almost as important as sound.

Joanna Newsom’s fanciful gothic folk sound has no real contemporary musical parallel.

“By the time I was seven, I knew I wanted to be a songwriter…”

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Founding members of America talk about their latest project: Here and Now.

In 1990, photographer Ian Tilton captured what might be the lasting image of Kurt Cobain.

The man who laid the groundwork for doo-wop.