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...

Sykes 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...

I'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...

It 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...

Back in the late '80s, the Blue Chieftains were major players in the nascent NYC alt-country scene. They gigged regularly but only released...

Wooten 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...

This 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...

The 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...

It 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...

Zen 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...

Collection assembles tracks from TMGE’s five LPs and two EPs and, in the interest of value for money, I’m obliged to point out that it only...

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...

When 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...

Redd 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...

Deal's latest, a dozen tracks produced by Dixie Chick daddy and long-time Joe Ely sideman Lloyd Maines, is an outstanding, understated LP. T...

Eli is another Texas boy writing songs about beautiful losers and smearing the lines between rock and country while doing it. It’s not exact...

The 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...

A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldn’t keep up with them or even...

It 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...

A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldn’t keep up with them or even...