This week, in issue 9, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN & MATS…
This week, in issue 8, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end SHEILA & B.DEVOTION Title: King…
Title: The Collection Label: Floating World Goodness, this man had a tough life. It’s all there, abandoned by his parents when he was no age at all, having to work instead…
Title: Loose Salute Label: Music on Vinyl Who would have thought that an ex-Monkee would end up being a space cowboy? More than that, who would have thought that his solo…
Title: The Early Years Label: Jasmine We all know Campbell, don’t we? His hits are still played on national radio while the best of them remain the core of many cover…
Title: Ten/Greatest Hits: Live & Kickin’/Western Standard Time/Keepin’ Me Up Nights Label: Floating World Bob Wills was and still is the godfather of Western swing in terms of country music and, back…
Title: Byrd’s Expedition Label: Richard Weize Archives Byrd was a lap steel guitarist – as opposed to a pedal steel guitarist. The man was also a legend in guitar circles. So…
Title: Live at the Fillmore, February 1969 Label: Floating World This disc represents an interesting time for The Byrds. Only a year before, original band members Roger McGuinn and Christ Hillman…
Title: Wonderful Wanda plus Lovin’ Country Style Label: Hoodoo Jackson is known as a rockabilly singer and a darned good one too. Her father encouraged her to do just that. More…
Title: Too Far to Care Label: Music on Vinyl An alt-country outfit, emerging in 1993 and hosting a name that pays due respect to a love of trains, the band started…
Title: Copperfield Label: Man in the Moon I find it confusing and slightly irritating that The Dillards don’t get more attention and respect for their talents and genuine boundary-breaking career. This…
The Grand Ole Opry – the mecca of country music. Paul Rigby talks to Opry expert, Professor Kristine M. McCusker about how, in the early days, it struggled to cope with rockabilly and…
Title: Shutters and Boards Label: Jasmine He was known as Mr Smooth and was so for a very good reason. He was blessed with an easy going, baritone that flowed like…
Title: The Trouble With The Truth Label: Bear Family Well, he was new to me but Smith (or ‘Q’, as he was known to his friends) produced and sold hundreds of…
Title: Sleeper Catcher/First Under Wire Label: Lemon Australia has produced several notable music artists but how many of you remember this group? They were big in the seventies mixing a country…
Title: Sun Singles Label: Bear Family Of late, a range of classic albums has filled this column. Sometimes, though, classic cuts do not and cannot fill an album. Yet they are…
Elizabeth Cook Title: Exodus of Venus Label: Agent Love Cook was always odds-on to be a country singer because her parents had a working honky tonk band and daughter Elizabeth appeared…
Kenny Loggins Title: Sittin’ In Label: Audio Fidelity From 1971, originally released on the Colombia label and Loggins’ 11 track debut (effectively) with a firm additional credit heading towards Jim Messina…
Title: Midwest Farmer’s Daughter Label: Third Man Records An intriguing artist because Price harks back to the past in terms of her singing style, taking a leaf from the likes of…
Title: In Style Again Label: Plowboy A distinguished country singer, Brown has had a fruitful career, initially as a member and lead male vocalist of the 50s outfit, The Browns. Come…
Title: Please Help Me I’m Falling & Happy Journey Label: Jasmine Sometimes unfairly forgotten but Locklin had one of the supreme tenor voices of country music. He had a real sense…
Title: That Kind Of Girl Label: Windbone This is an interesting album, not least because it was created using something called PledgeMusic which is, and I quote, “An online Direct-to-Fan music…
Title: Coat of Many Colours Label: Music on Vinyl A truly beautiful album from, at the time of the release of this LP in 1971, an emerging ‘solo’ country star. Of course,…
Title: Yesterday’s Wine Label: Speakers Corner One of his best loved works. From 1971, Nelson mulls overs wide ranging subjects from God, love and ageing which could, if you squinted a…
Title: Yes, Ma’am, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk Label: Bear Family Famous to many as Mrs Merle Haggard, Williams, by 1958, at the age of just 16, had already…
Title: The Blissed-Out Birth Of Country Rock: Volume 1 (1966-1968) & Volume 2 (1969) Label: Bear Family In a weird way, the creation of country rock, in a time when psychedelia…