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