Reviews The Game of Love BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay B&N In a world festering with male-female duos,…
Reviews Union Avenue Communiqué THE HOWLIN' BROTHERS went to Memphis's legendary SUN STUDIOS and cut an impressive six-song EP as a stopgap…
Reviews Cowboys, Blues and Cowboy Blues GARY ALLEGRETTO and IAN ESPINOZA have teamed up on a debut CD of cowboy love songs, cowboy blues,…
Reviews Claire in Autumn Although Claire Lynch’s exceptional Compass label debut, Dear Sister, was released at the end of May, at the…
Reviews Samantha Fish, In Progress SAMANTHA FISH has sidestepped the sophomore jinx on her outstanding MIKE ZITO-produced second album, BLACK WIND HOWLIN'. Still…
Spotlight Album And Lo, She Flies Violinist, guitarist and master of the cwrth, EMERALD RAE emerges as a serious singer-songwriter on IF ONLY I…
Reviews They Only Come Out at Night NOCTAMBULE (MARLA FIBISH and BRUCE VICTOR) have fashioned a number of poems by ROBERT SERVICE and others into…
Spotlight Album And A Proud Mama She Would Be AUTUMN IN AUGUSTA, the blues-jazz-folk combo led by the wondrous LUCY SMITH, has a winner in SONGS MY…
Reviews The Lost Gospel Describing themselves as 'battered veterans of punk-rock-art damage,' the trio known as THE BOOK OF AMY retreat to…
Spotlight Album AJ Being AJ For more than a decade ALAN JACKSON has been musing about making a bluegrass album. Well, he finally…