Review, buy Alt. Country: Free Range Chicken, Safety, Honky Tonk Reprise [CASSETTE], Empty Rooms [VINYL], Star City, Fearless Heart [CASSETTE], Viva Satellite [CASSETTE], Essential Steve Earle [CASSETTE], Slow Dancing With the Moon [CASSETTE], Rockin' Country [CASSETTE], Live at Adair's, My Pappy Was a Pistol [VINYL], Twistin' in the Wind [CASSETTE], Bull Durham Blues, Straightaways [VINYL], North by Northeast: Roots, Rock & Country [CASSETTE], Mountain Stage Vol.2, Absolute Torch and Twang [CASSETTE], Maggie Brown, Industry and Thrift

Like many fine songwriters, Joe Ely recycles a limited number of melodic ideas, so the trick is to place new songs in musical settings that will distinguish them from his old ones. On his 12th album, Ely walks familiar melodies through a musical landscape that's constantly looking back and forth across the Mex-Tex border. Many tracks return to the flamenco touches of 1995's Letter to Laredo, but now accordion has been tossed into the pot and there's a good deal more pedal steel too-intriguing complements to all the blazing electric guitars from longtime pals Jesse Taylor and David Grissom. Infrequently, this new sound is a bit rag-tag, but most cuts, especially the emotional no-man's land of the title track, are as powerful as any Ely has ever recorded. -David Cantwell.

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Review John Dee Holeman / Bull Durham Blues

Bull Durham Blues (John Dee Holeman)

Tracks Bull Durham Blues

Chapel Hill Boogie
Mistreated Blues
Little Country Gal
Give Me Back My Wig
Hambone
God Loves His Children
Crow Jane
Hello Central
Sweet Home Chicago
Step It up and Go
Early Morning Blues
Big Boss Man
Stranger Blues

Publisher: Music Maker
Release date: 1999-06-08
Price: £14.99

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Straightaways [VINYL] (Son Volt)

Tracks Straightaways [VINYL]

Way Down Watson
No More Parades
Creosote
Back into Your World
Left a Slide
Last Minute Shakedown
Cemetery Savior
Picking up the Signal
Been Set Free
Caryatid Easy

Publisher: Warner Bros.
Release date: 1997-05-14
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £11.98

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Review Various Artists / North by Northeast: Roots, Rock & Country [CASSETTE]

North by Northeast: Roots, Rock & Country [CASSETTE] (Various Artists)

Tracks North by Northeast: Roots, Rock & Country [CASSETTE]

Early Man - Treat Her Right
Heathen Hornpipe
Tempted - The El Caminos
Midnight Blue
Borderline - Kevin Salem
Farmer of Chester's Daughter - We Saw the Wolf
Joe Féraille
Two Sisters - The Immortals
Funtime
High on a Mountaintop - The Blood Oranges
Beg, Steal or Borrow - The Swinging Steaks
Old Noah
Anna Lee
Rio Sangre
Fate - Hypnotic Clambake

Publisher: Northeastern
Release date: 1994-11-04
Price: £7.99

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Mountain Stage Vol.2 (Various Artists)

Tracks Mountain Stage Vol.2

Simply - Sara Hickman
Summerfly - Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas, Maura O'Connell
Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg
God Is a Real Estate Developer - Michelle Shocked
Arms of Love - Robyn Hitchcock
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Standing on Shaky Ground - Delbert McClinton
Red Wine and Promises - June Tabor
You're No Good - John Wesley Harding
Where've You Been - Kathy Mattea
It's a Big Old Goofy World - John Prine
These Blues - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Publisher: Phonogram
Release date: 1993-01-01
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £9.84

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Absolute Torch and Twang [CASSETTE] (k.d. lang and the Reclines)

Tracks Absolute Torch and Twang [CASSETTE]

Full Moon Full of Love
Pullin' Back the Reins
Big, Big Love
Big Boned Gal
Trail of Broken Hearts
It's Me
Walflower Waltz
Walkin' in and Out of Your Arms
Three Days
Nowhere to Stand
Didn't I
Luck in My Eyes

Publisher: Sire
Release date: 1989-05-19
Price: £7.99

Review Absolute Torch and Twang [CASSETTE] / k.d. lang and the Reclines:

This 1989 album was k. d. lang's generous farewell to the country music world that had given her the cold shoulder after her stellar collaboration with legendary producer Owen Bradley on Shadowland. Songs such as "Pulling Back the Reins"-written by lang with co-producer guitarist Ben Mink-combined classic country and western imagery with more revealingly personal emotions. At the same time, the album maintained a sly sense of humour missing from much of her later work. The covers of Willie Nelson ("Three Days") and Wynn Stewart ("Big Big Love") certainly don't hurt. The Reclines, lang's band, is notable for the presence of Greg Leisz on steel guitar. -Rick Mitchell.

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Maggie Brown (Maggie Brown)

Tracks Maggie Brown

Full Moon Over Dallas
Nowhere to Go But Crazy
Looking Back
Forty Dollars
Black River Blues
Jacob; S Eyes
Used Cars
Hush
Mosquito Net
I Like It
Shame
Wasted

Publisher: Riverwide Music
Release date: 2004-10-26
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £7.61

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Industry and Thrift (Bad Livers)

Tracks Industry and Thrift

Anna Lee
Brand New Hat
I'm Convicted
Lumpy Beanpole And Dirt
Captain Oh Captain
Jalopy
Cannonball Rag
Doin My Time
Honey I've Found A Brand New Way/It's All The Same To Me
I'm Going Back To Mom And Dad
Hollywood Blues
Yid Ist Geboren Inz Oklahoma

Publisher: Sugar Hill
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £4.48

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