Archive for January, 2007
Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Sessions
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 [...]
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN: COUNTRY MUSIC IN AMERICA > Paul Kingsbury & Alanna Nash
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.
COLD WAR KIDS > Robbers and Cowards
Cold Wars Kids are the first to admit that, for them, style is almost as important as sound.
JOANNA NEWSOM > Ys
Joanna Newsom’s fanciful gothic folk sound has no real contemporary musical parallel.
DIANE WARREN: Real Songs for Real People
“By the time I was seven, I knew I wanted to be a songwriter…”
TOM WAITS > Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, & Bastards
Orphans succeeds in being the sketchbook of a master craftsman…
AMERICA: Harmony Rock At Its Purest
Founding members of America talk about their latest project: Here and Now.
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