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CD Reviews
Submitted by sramser on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 19:07.
Album: A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)
Submitted by sramser on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 19:28.
Record Label: Credential/EMI
Submitted by sramser on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 19:31.
Calling Reckless Kelly a country band has always been somewhat of a misnomer; even they describe themselves as “a rock band with a fiddle.” On Somewhere in Time, their 12-song tribute to a major influence, Pinto Bennett and the Famous Motel Cowboys, Reckless Kelly is a rock band with a fiddle and pedal steel — and chimey guitars and Bennett’s very country-leaning lyrics.
Submitted by sramser on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 19:36.
Album: It's Not as Bad as It Looks Not since Dante has a man walked through hell and lived to tell the tale with such poetic beauty as Jon Dee Graham. The gory details, which have seeded everything from benefit concerts to a tribute album to innumerable painful ly funny horror stories from the man himself, needn’t be rehashed here; all that matters is that the battered and semi-broken former Skunk and True Believer is still standing — and mining the wreckage for the best songs of his life.
Submitted by sramser on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 19:24.
Record Label: Lost Highway
Submitted by sramser on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 19:30.
Record Label: Lost Highway
Submitted by sramser on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 19:34.
Record Label: www.matttheelectrician.com I don’t know what takes more guts for a singer-songwriter: covering Journey’s all-time wimpiest power ballad without a trace of hipster irony, or giving equally honest props to Wal-Mart.
Submitted by sramser on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 19:36.
Roadhouse legend Delbert McClinton comes up with a grand slam at the spry age of nearly 70, and nearly 35 years after such definitive discs as Victim of Life’s Circumstances and Genuine Cowhide. Yeah, his voice may show a little wear and tear from his long journey.
Submitted by sramser on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 20:51.
Record Label: Shout! Factory For his fourth solo album (counting his long out-of-print debut, Mythologies), Rhett Miller finally gets to just be himself. His last two albums had him playing the roles of The Instigator (2002) and The Believer (2006), but now, with this self-titled release, Miller strips away those labels and the one for which he’s best known, lead singer of the Dallas band Old 97’s, and offers up a set of tunes that reflect a conflicted psyche. Lyrics come from a dark place, but are masked by jaunty melodies and Miller’s exuberant charm.
Submitted by sramser on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 20:52.
Far more than a tribute, Steve Earle’s Townes helps correct the record, so to speak. The man he calls the “maestro” was not all that well represented by most of his studio recordings, with the exception of 1987’s At My Window. Even though all 15 tracks here bear Earle’s firm and unmistakable artistic stamp, they also evoke visions of what might have been had Townes Van Zandt’s albums been produced with the insight, imagination and artistic empathy they deserved.
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