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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The first thing you notice about Pipitone, apart from a resemblance to Courtney Cox, is that she has the same sort of sexy and sensuous husk...

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...

Connell is a former member of ’70s new wavers the Heaters, but this is her audacious solo debut. Its ten tracks were recorded completely sol...

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...