Posts in category Albums

RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS III/IV Pax-AM Records Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Ryan Adams & the Cardinals’ III/IV is not, as …

THE DERAILERS Live! From Texas Varese Sarabande The Derailers may have called their latest release Live From Texas, but they’d be the first to acknowledge …

LORETTA LYNN AND FRIENDS Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn Columbia  When you wanna talk about hard country singers, Loretta Lynn sets the …

CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ The New Bye & Bye Train Wreck Records They sound so right together, it’s hard to believe Chip Taylor and …

ELTON JOHN & LEON RUSSELL The Union Decca/Rocket Perhaps the most disturbing thing about The Union, the much-anticipated collaboration from two of rock music’s most …

JONNY BURKE Distance and Fortune www.jonnyburke.com Rolling Stones comparisons were all the rage when it came to write-ups of Central Texas’s gone-too-soon Dedringers, and the …

HACIENDA Big Red & Barbacoa Alive Records This fledgling San Antonio rock band’s sophomore release, Big Red & Barbacoa, bursts upon listeners just like the …

THE MELISSA LUDWIG BAND Now That You’re Here www.melissaludwig.com I don’t know how exactly the Melissa Ludwig Band ever came to be considered “Americana” (they …

ELIZABETH McQUEEN The Laziest Girl in the Town Freedom Records Somewhere out there, there’s a musical anthropologist who’s been looking for the missing link between …

BETH WOOD The Weather Inside Blue Rock Artists  The term “recording artist” has become somewhat devalued in an era where any singer-songwriter with Garageband, a …