Wyatt, if you can't guess by the ultra-generic title, is yet another hip-hop diva wannabe. Early in her career she was in a nascent version...
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Keith Sykes Don't Count Us Out Published May 01, 2002Sykes has had songs recorded by Jimmy Buffet, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, the Judds, Rosanne Cash, and John Prine, to name a few. He's rel...
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Phil Lee You Should Have Known Me Then Published May 01, 2002I'd say it was a better than even money bet that Phil Lee has been listening to his Dylan records lately. After the Jerry Lee-fuelled openin...
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Wooldridge Brothers The Unreel Hits Published May 01, 2002It takes balls to open an LP with a line like, "it was a dark and stormy night." The Wooldridges, Scott and Brian, proceed to string togethe...
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Blue Chieftains ...That's All Published Apr 01, 2002Back in the late '80s, the Blue Chieftains were major players in the nascent NYC alt-country scene. They gigged regularly but only released...
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Victor Wooten Live In America Published Apr 01, 2002Wooten may still be young, but he's been working in the music business for a while. He played in a band with four of his brothers when he wa...
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Million Yen Blue Television Windows Published Apr 01, 2002This Chicago quartet blasts out of the blocks with "Chemical Drip, a searing blast of tasty power pop. They call it heavy pop, and it is he...
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Hadacol All In Your Head Published Apr 01, 2002The band takes their name from the patent medicine that sponsored Hank Williams' radio show, so you'd be right to expect at least a little t...
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Smogtown Domesticviolenceland Published Apr 01, 2002It still amazes me how back in the 60s and early 70s all those white British boys were trying to sing like grizzled, black Americans, and...
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Zen Guerilla Shadows On The Sun Published Apr 01, 2002Zen Guerrilla is more guerrilla than Zen, if you ask me, although there is a certain lack of formality to be found here. Firmly built on a f...
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Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Collection Published Apr 01, 2002Collection assembles tracks from TMGEs five LPs and two EPs and, in the interest of value for money, Im obliged to point out that it only...
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Keke Wyatt Soul Sista Published Apr 01, 2002Wyatt, if you can't guess by the ultra-generic title, is yet another hip-hop diva wannabe. Early in her career she was in a nascent version...
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Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Best Of Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Published Apr 01, 2002When Beau Jocque died of a heart attack on September 8, 1999, at age 47, the world became a more sombre place. He built his music on the fou...
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Redd Volkaert No Stranger To A Tele Published Mar 01, 2002Redd may look like an Amish truck driver, but the title of his second solo release is more than apt; the boy does know his way around a tele...
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Kevin Deal Kiss On The Breeze Published Mar 01, 2002Deal's latest, a dozen tracks produced by Dixie Chick daddy and long-time Joe Ely sideman Lloyd Maines, is an outstanding, understated LP. T...
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Billy Eli Trailer Park Angel Published Mar 01, 2002Eli is another Texas boy writing songs about beautiful losers and smearing the lines between rock and country while doing it. Its not exact...
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Hadacol All In Your Head Published Mar 01, 2002The band takes their name from the patent medicine that sponsored Hank Williams radio show, so youd be right to expect at least a little t...
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Robert Pollard & His Soft Rock Renegades Choreographed Man of War Published Mar 01, 2002A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldnt keep up with them or even...
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Wooldridge Brothers The Unreel Hits Published Mar 01, 2002It takes balls to open an LP with a line like, "it was a dark and stormy night. The Wooldridges, Scott and Brian, proceed to string togethe...
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Airport 5 Tower in the Fountain of Sparks Published Mar 01, 2002A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldnt keep up with them or even...