Hard Bargain Emmylou Harris (Nonesuch Records, 2011) Emmylou Harris’ Hard Bargain is the joyous, bittersweet album that a 64-year-old country-rock legend...
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KMAG YOYO Hayes Carll (Lost High, 2011) Despite the best efforts of the Nashville industry, country music refuses to die, and Hayes Carll’s new album is...
Let England Shake P. J. Harvey (Vagrant Records, 2011) England’s reputation as an island of eccentrics is longstanding, and for the past two decades P. J...
City of Refuge Abigail Washburn (Rounder Records, 2011) The banjo is the most American of instruments, arriving with the slaves from West Africa but quickly...
I Know I’ve Been Changed By Aaron Neville (EMI Gospel, 2010) Put the name of New Orleans R&B singer Aaron Neville alongside those of Flannery...
Write About Love By Belle and Sebastian (Matador Records, 2010) I have a really bad attitude about the clever, collegiate, and self-consciously catchy indie...
Los Lobos (Shout Factory!, 2010) Former Secretary of Labor Linda Chavez, among others, has argued that current levels of immigration from Mexico are somehow...
The Gaslight Anthem (Side One Dummy, 2010) If your idea of rock and roll requires three-chord guitars, bass and drums, and a dead-earnest sense of commitment...
Mary Gauthier (Razor and Tie, 2010) Singer-songwriter extraordinaire Mary Gauthier (“go-shay”) has a voice like a rusty string on a slide guitar. But that...
Natalie Merchant (Nonesuch Records, 2010) In those last few brick-and-mortar record stores still out there, you may find Leave Your Sleep in the...
