Singer Nicolette Larson, who died in 1998 after suffering a brain hemorrhage, was best known
to music fans for having a huge hit with her cover of Neil Young's Lotta Love. But to Larson's peers -- who gathered two months ...
The husband-and-wife duo Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore are definitely up the Brooklyn branch of
alt-country, much more like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, say, than George Jones and Tammy Wynette, but the story, love in all its joining and ...
A very strange, very jarring soundtrack album release that starts out with a selection of
'60s pop hits and transitions through The Marines Hymn to Fairlight performances by Abigail Mead (actually Vivian Kubrick, daughter of director Stanley Kubrick). The original ...
There could only ever be one Slim Whitman. A left-handed guitar player with an arresting
falsetto vocal style that sounds eerily like Johnny Mathis blended with Roy Orbison, Whitman fell to the western side of country music, but he also ...
Where Greatest Hits had the bulk of Tom T. Hall's greatest story songs, Greatest Hits,
Vol. 2 concentrates on his silly, cutesy songs, like Sneaky Snake, I Like Beer, I Love, and Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine, among seven ...
RCA's nine-track 1979 Greatest Hits collection has since been supplemented by more thorough compilations --
most notably the double-disc sets Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line and RCA Country Legends -- but as a snapshot of Waylon at his outlaw ...
Prior to 2014's highly regarded Goodnight Tender, Amy Ray had spent her career, both solo
and with fellow Indigo Girl Emily Saliers, dancing around the margins of various American roots traditions. The Indigo Girls' music has always been rooted in ...
The eponymous follow-up to 2015's lovely and understated Over and Even, Joan Shelley sees the
Louisville, Kentucky-based singer/songwriter and her partner in crime Nathan Salsburg delivering a warm breeze of a record that unfolds like a curl of smoke from ...