Tracks Try and Try Again
- L.A. Turnaround
- Old Chunk of Coal
- You Wouldn't Know Love
- (I've Been To) Georgia On A Fast Train
- Hottest Thing in Town
- Black Rose
- Try and Try Again
- Tramp on Your Street
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- You Asked Me To
- When Fallen Angels Fly
- Live Forever
- You Can't Beat Jesus Christ
Release date: 2003-11-24
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.99
Review Try and Try Again / Billy Joe Shaver:
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Tracks Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts [CASSETTE]
- Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door) - Hank Williams, Jr.
- Hand Me Down - Hank Williams, Jr.
- Move It on Over
- Honky Tonk Blues
- 'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone - Hank Williams III
- I'm a Long Gone Daddy
- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- Lost Highway - Hank Williams
- Men with Broken Hearts
- Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
- Moanin' the Blues - Hank Williams, Hank Williams III
- I Won't Be Home No More
Release date: 1996-09-17
RRP: £4.99
Price: £19.99
Review Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts [CASSETTE] / Various Artists:
Tracks Secret South
- Poor Mouth
- Splinters
- Praying Arm Lane
- Silver Saddle
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Just Like Birds
- Cinder Alley
- Clogger
- Straw Foot
- Burning Bush
- Nobody 'Cept You
Release date: 2000-09-12
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.69
Review Secret South / 16 Horsepower:The label has changed-Sixteen Horsepower's first two albums, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes and Low Estate appeared on A&M-but, thankfully, little else has. Sixteen Horsepower's palette is still exclusively comprised of banjos and accordions, gothic portent and religious foreboding. They still sound like William Faulkner's prose rendered as music, like they belong less in modern music venues and more like they should be struggling to be heard through the lifting smoke and screams of the wounded on the fields of Antietam. Singer and lyricist David Eugene Edwards continues to straddle the divide between country singer and medicine-show evangelist; in an age where country music has been hijacked by the gormless drones of corporate Nashville or the irony-straitjacketed art students who populate too many alt. country groups, he is a rare and precious reminder of an age where country was defined by the holy furies of the Louvin Brothers and Hank Williams. "Burning Bush" and "Praying Arm Lane" might even be the two best things he's written, and the exuberant cover of Bob Dylan's "'Cept You" is surely definitive. Secret South is Sixteen Horsepower's finest hour. -Andrew Mueller.
Tracks Six Shooter
- Wrapped in Red - Black Monday
- Take This Job and Shove It - Speedbuggy USA
- Go Ask Linda - Speedbuggy USA
- Engine No. 9 - Speedbuggy USA
- Guns & Lightning - Speedbuggy USA
- Gunslinger - Black Monday
- Crossroads - Black Monday
- Truck Drivin' Man - Speedbuggy USA
- Runaway - Black Monday
- Long Way Home - Speedbuggy USA
- On Your Own - Black Monday
Release date: 2003-09-30
RRP: £21.99
Price: £16.59
Review Six Shooter / Speedbuggy Usa & Black Monday:
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Tracks Alone at the Microphone [VINYL]
- And Miriam Took A Timbrel In Her Hand
- Daisies
- Rum Tobacco
- Spacy Basement
- Under A Hollow Tree
- My Brother Is The Meatman
- You Are The Vine
- Bad Luck
- Blood And Faeces
- Dank Is The Air Of Death And Loathing
- Don't You
Release date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.75
Review Alone at the Microphone [VINYL] / Royal City:
Publisher: Teichiku
Release date: 2008-01-13
RRP: £27.99
Price: £23.99
Review Fine Art Of Self Destruction / Jesse Malin:
Tracks Romeo's Escape
- Far Away
- I Wish It Was Saturday Night
- Every Night About This Time
- You Got Me
- Long White Cadillac
- Romeo's Escape
- Border Radio
- Fourth of July
- New Tattoo
- Jubilee Train
- Brother (On the Line)
Release date: 1996-06-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £24.95
Review Romeo's Escape / Dave Alvin:
Tracks The Best of the Atlantic Sessions
- Blue Horizon
- San Francisco Fm Blues
- Nitty Gritty
- Juan Mendoza
- Tennessee Blues
- Wallflower
- Box Car Hobo
- Poison Love
- Texas Tornado
- Betty Jo
- Is Anybody Going To San Antone
- Song About Myself
- Dealer's Blues
- I Get Off
- Chicano
- Ain' That Loving You
- Hard Way
- Image Of Me
- Your Friend
Release date: 1994-10-01
Price: £9.99
Review The Best of the Atlantic Sessions / Doug Sahm:
Tracks Green Dream: Before The Rains
- Thousand Heartbeats
- That Distant Star
- Stella Maris
- Ring Around the Moon
- White Lake
- Where All the Waters Meet - Yeah
- Beyond Time
- Quest
- Bidi's Song
- Under Moon Under Moor
- Woman at the Well
- Unseen Shadows
Release date: 1996-07-09
RRP: £16.99
Price: £37.95
Review Green Dream: Before The Rains / Tim Wheater:
Tracks Austin Country Nights
- Baby, Maybe Then I'll Love You - Libbi Bosworth
- Down the Line - The Wagoneers
- Choose Only Love - Jeff Hughes
- Love Song of the Waterfall - Don Walser
- Waltz Across Texas - Area Code 512
- Tonight I Know - Mary Cutrufello
- Just One More Time - Derailers
- Sunset Boulevard - Charlie Robison
- Poor Man's Son - Bruce Robison
- Honky Tonk Hell - Ted Roddy
- Girl, I Hope You're Having Fun - Dale Watson
- Face in the Crowd - Roy Heinrich
- I Cry, Then I Drink, Then I Cry - Cornell Hurd
Release date: 1995-12-04
Price: £14.99
Review Austin Country Nights / Various Artists:
Tracks Kudzu Kings
- Panola County Line
- Rototiller
- I Love Beer
- Tick Taxi
- Amsterdam
- Dream
- Uninvited
- It's a Play
- Streetwalkin'
- Bar-B-Q Blues
- Driving
- Square Squatters
- Mississippi Mud
- Circus Tune
- Truly
Release date: 1998-05-19
RRP: £21.99
Price: £8.64
Review Kudzu Kings / Kudzu Kings:
Tracks Hoarse
- Bad Moon Risin'
- Black Soul Choir
- Low Estate
- Horse Head
- Fire Spirit
- South Pennsylvania Waltz
- American Wheeze
- For Heaven's Sake
- Day Of The Lords
- Brimstone Rock
- Black Lung
Release date: 2004-11-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.69
Review Hoarse / 16 Horsepower:
Tracks Califone
- Don't Let Me Die Nervous
- Dock Boggs
- Electric Fence
- St. Martha Let It Fold
- Beneath The Yachtsman
Release date: 2000-03-20
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.79
Review Califone / Califone:Having split Red Red Meat (one of the Sub Pop label's better signings), singer and songwriter Tim Rutili returns as Califone, aided by, at various points, RRM's drummer Ben Massarella, programmer Brian Deck and bassist Tim Hurley. Whereas RRM delivered a bruising blues deepened by modern effects and production techniques, and Califone's first EP tossed its songs into a swirling pit of noise, this 5-track mini-album is consciously more restrained, highlighting a quiet, folky vocal that cracks and breaks like a mournful and moving J. Mascis. More often though, particularly when roughly harmonised and backed by picked and ringing guitar, it's convincingly and unusually rootsy-not unlike Hot Tuna's Jorma Kaukonen at his very best. Musically, the band veers between an updated but still fairly straight Appalachian folk and a challengingly contemporary sound that introduces a writhing and crashing latter day percussion and echoing effects to the mix. Thus, they remain entirely relevant without ever losing their grasp on age-old soul. Very few manage this-Califone are genuine groundbreakers. -Dominic Wills.
Publisher: Rykodisc
Release date: 2002-04-01
Price: £4.99
Review Clear Spot / Pernice Brothers:
Tracks Musicforthemorningafter
- Simonize
- Closet
- For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)
- Life on a Chain
- Sleep Better
- Sense
- Knew Enough to Know Nothing at All [*]
- Murray
- New York City Serenade [*]
- Lose You
- June
- On Your Side
- Strange Condition [Rock Version][*]
- China Girl [*]
- Black
- Strange Condition
- Just Another
- Dancing in the Dark [*]
- EZ
Release date: 2002-05-07
Price: £24.99
Review Musicforthemorningafter / Pete Yorn:The phonograph crackling that opens Pete Yorn's Musicforthemorningafter is an appropriate gesture for an artist hailed as the best thing to come out of South Jersey since Bruce Springsteen. Actually, Yorn doesn't sound a thing like Springsteen, but he does possess a classic pop craftsmanship shared by tradition-minded singer-songwriters such as Neilson Hubbard and Elliot Smith. On the cool, infectious "Life on a Chain", Yorn's relaxed crooning evokes the spirit of Bruce Cockburn, while "Simonize", ostensibly a love song penned by Jack the Ripper, calls to mind Big Star-period Alex Chilton. Rhythmically, the part-time drummer and multi-instrumentalist (he scored the Farrelly brother's movie Me, Myself and Irene and plays most of the instruments here himself) leans toward the drone lilt of early New Order and Joy Division, resulting in a smooth fusion of American and Anglo influences that make Yorn a new artist well worth watching. -Bill Forman.
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Tracks Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions [CASSETTE]
- He Was Mine
- Western Wall
- Raise the Dead
- Falling Down
- Loving the Highway Man
- Sisters of Mercy
- All I Left Behind
- Sweet Spot
- Across the Border
- For a Dancer
- Valerie
- This Is to Mother You
- 1917
Release date: 1999-08-24
RRP: £9.99
Price: £42.94
Review Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions [CASSETTE] / Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris:Emmylou Harris once said of her four-shows-a-night salad days that she refused to sing anything on the hit parade, opting only for "bizarre, left-field songs" that "made it hard to make a living. " Decades later, Harris still spends a lot of time in left field, and it's those offbeat, haunting gems-more than the classics here from Leonard Cohen or Jackson Browne-that make Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, her duet album with Linda Ronstadt, so memorable. That, and her exquisitely pained soprano-reminiscent of "cracked crystal", as Linda puts it-nestled up against Ronstadt's thicker, corduroy harmonies. With arrangements that meet somewhere between Harris's Wrecking Ball and Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind, the two explore a mood of morose dreaminess, but profound beauty. Ghosts gather here, to the sounds of rattling bones-in songs of abandoned love, of musical giants now gone silent, and of World War I soldiers, who parade from the arms of prostitutes to the arms of death. Left field, dotted with the wreckage of heartache and regret, never sounded better. -Alanna Nash.
Tracks Favorite Country Duets [CASSETTE]
- Face in the Ground - Holly Dunn,
- Time's Up - Carlene Carter, Southern Pacific
- Sin City - k.d. lang, Dwight Yoakam
- Maybe - Holly Dunn, Kenny Rogers
- Another World - Crystal Gayle, Gary Morris
- As Long as We Got Each Other - Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas
- Makin' up for Lost Time - Crystal Gayle, Gary Morris
- Drive South - The Bellamy Brothers, The Forester Sisters
- Talkin' to the Wrong Man - Michael Martin Murphey, Ryan Murphey
- Mama, She's Lazy - Pinkard & Bowden
Release date: 1991-03-12
Price: £5.99
Review Favorite Country Duets [CASSETTE] / Various Artists:
Tracks Is a Woman
- Is A Woman
- The New Cobweb Summer (Schneider TM Lanzarote remix)
- Is A Woman (Video)
- Is A Woman (Reworked by The Maxwell Implosion)
- Is A Woman (Alpha Remix)
Release date: 2002-05-27
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.50
Review Is a Woman / Lambchop:
Tracks Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town [CASSETTE]
- Defying Gravity
- I Ain't Living Long Like This
- Two More Bottles of Wine
- Green Rolling Hills
- Easy from Now On
- One Paper Kid
- My Songbird
- Burn That Candle
- To Daddy
- Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
Release date: 1990-10-17
RRP: £7.99
Price: £10.00
Review Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town [CASSETTE] / Emmylou Harris:
Tracks Is the Actor Happy?
- Strange Language
- Thumbtack
- Sad Peter Pan
- Guilty by Association
- Doubting Woman
- Onion Soup
- Gravity of the Situation
- Thailand
- Betty Lonely
- Wrong Piano
- Free of Hope
Release date: 1995-05-23
RRP: £13.99
Price: £16.09
Review Is the Actor Happy? / Vic Chesnutt:
| Models & Brands:
Try and Try Again, Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts [CASSETTE], Secret South, Six Shooter, Alone at the Microphone [VINYL], Fine Art Of Self Destruction, Romeo's Escape, The Best of the Atlantic Sessions, Green Dream: Before The Rains, Austin Country Nights, Kudzu Kings, Hoarse, Califone, Clear Spot, Musicforthemorningafter, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions [CASSETTE], Favorite Country Duets [CASSETTE], Is a Woman, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town [CASSETTE], Is the Actor Happy? |
