Rodney Crowell, Mary Karr, et al. (Vanguard, 2012) Over the past 16 years as I’ve read Mary Karr’s three memoirs, I’ve always heard Rodney Crowell’s music as...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
Just what the title and artist name suggest, Rappalachia by Gangstagrass is a fusion of rap rhythm tracks and old-time mountain music instrumentation and...
Marley: The Original Soundtrack Bob Marley and the Wailers (Tuff Gong, 2012) Bob Marley, who took reggae music from Jamaica to the world, is one of the pop...
Locked Down Dr. John (Nonesuch Records, 2012) In the deranged days of 1968, New Orleans musician Mac Rebennack decided to join the fun by dubbing himself Dr...
Jay Farrar, Jim James, et al. (Rounder Records, 2012) When the American folk icon Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind reams of song lyrics but no music...
Chuck Prophet (Yep Roc, 2012) Chuck Prophet has been known in the alt-rock world since the mid-1980s when he signed on as chief guitar-slinger for a great alt...
The Harrow & The Harvest Gillian Welch (Acony Records, 2011) Gillian Welch has described the 10 songs on The Harrow & The Harvest as “10 kinds of...
undun The Roots (Def Jam, 2011) The Roots are famous now as the house band on The Jimmy Fallon Show, but they’ve been legend among America’s better-informed...
Working in Tennessee Merle Haggard (Vanguard Records, 2011) Merle Haggard has been a monument of American culture for almost 50 years. His life story is the...
Ollabelle (Thirty Tigers, 2011) On the first track of the new Ollabelle album, a clavinet, sounding like an electrified mouth harp, hacks out a riff that...
