Tracks Ramblin'
- You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
- Malted Milk Blues
- Me And My Chauffeur
- Disgusted
- Great Speckled Bird
- Drop Down Daddy
- Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
- Stop Breakin' Down
- Motherless Children
- Jug Band Music
- Satisfied Mind
- Little Darling Pal Of Mine
Release date: 1995-02-21
Price: £15.99
Review Ramblin' / Lucinda Williams:
Tracks Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
- Listen
- Shang A Dang Dang
- Four Pounds In Two Days
- Being Tyler
- Somethings Going On
- Under A Dream Of A Lie
- The Lone Official
- Nothing Adventurous Please
- Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down
- Action Figure
- The Problem
- Timothy B Schmidt
- About My Lighter
- Low Ambition
- Steve Mcqueen
- The Gusher
- I Hate Candy
- I Havent Heard A Word Ive Said
- Theres Still Time
- Jan 24
- Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train
- Women Help Create The Kind Of Men They Despise
- Sunrise
- The Producer
Release date: 2004-02-09
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.65
Review Aw C'mon/No You C'mon / Lambchop:Aw C'Mon / No You C'Mon, the latest in Lambchop's long and meaty lineage, could loosely be described as a double-concept LP. Originally conceived when vocalist Kurt Wagner decided to write a song a day for a few months, it was then stretched further when the band was asked to write a soundtrack for a 1927 silent movie. The end result is a double LP that, consciously or not, adequately captures the diverse nature of this endlessly creative group. Wagner's distinctive voice is a constant (as are his lyrics, which range joyously from the sentimental to the sarcastic) but the background sounds are a constantly shifting tapestry, all rich strings and insouciant strums one minute, brooding melodies and sinister moods the next. If there's any band out there that seem to live for their work it's Lambchop. And while they don't necessarily get better with every album, they do retain a certain freshness and sense of innovation, traits that many of their peers could do with adopting. -Paul Sullivan.
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Tracks Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: +CD [VINYL]
- Pot kettle black
- War on war
- Kamera
- Jesus etc
- Poor places
- Heavy metal drummer
- Reservations
- I'm the man who loves you
- Radio cure
- I am trying to break your heart
- Ashes of American flags
Release date: 2008-08-25
RRP: £26.99
Price: £11.23
Review Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: +CD [VINYL] / Wilco:Named in honour of the three-word codes used by short-wave radio operators, Wilco's fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sounds like a late-night broadcast of some weirdly wonderful pop station punctuated by static and the sonic bleed of competing signals. Songs that begin with simple, elegiac grace-"Ashes of American Flags" and "Poor Places"-end in a cathartic squall of distortion. The results can be initially jarring, but it's these tracks more than the sturdy jangle pop of "Kamera" or "Heavy Metal Drummer" that demand, and reward, repeated listens. Mixed by studio experimentalist Jim O'Rourke and produced by the band, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot harkens back to a time when the words "pop" and "sonic adventurism" weren't mutually exclusive. The Beatles and Kurt Cobain knew this, and clearly so do Jeff Tweedy and company. -Keith Moerer.
Tracks Trinity Revisited: +DVD
- Sweet Jane
- Misguided Angel
- Dreaming My Dreams With You
- Postcard Blues
- Working On A Building
- Walking After Midnight
- Postcard Blues
- Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
- To Love Is To Bury
- Walking After Midnight
- Dreaming My Dreams With You
- 200 More Miles
- Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Trinity Session Revisited
- Working On A Building
- I Don't Get It
- I Don't Get It
- Mining For Gold
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- 200 More Miles
- To Love Is To Bury
- Misguided Angel
- Mining For Gold
- Sweet Jane
Release date: 2007-10-08
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.58
Review Trinity Revisited: +DVD / Cowboy Junkies:
Tracks Chelsea Walls: Original Soundtrack
- Finale
- Hello Are You There?
- Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling - Robert Sean Leonard
- Jealous Guy - Jimmy Scott
- Opening Titles
- Promising - Wilco
- End Credits
- The Wallman
- Frank's Dream
- Red Elevator
- When The Roses Bloom Again - Billy Bragg & Wilco
- The Lonely 1 - Robert Sean Leonard & Steve Zahn
Release date: 2002-04-29
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.69
Review Chelsea Walls: Original Soundtrack / Jeff Tweedy:
Tracks Profile Vol.1: the Best of Emmylou Harris
- One Of These Days
- You Never Can Tell
- Too Far Gone
- Together Again
- C'est La Vie
- Making Believe
- Sweet Dreams
- To Daddy
- Boulder To Birmingham
- Easy From Now On
- Hello Stranger
- If I Could Only Win Your Love
- Two More Bottles Of Wine
Release date: 1984-06-15
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.24
Review Profile Vol.1: the Best of Emmylou Harris / Emmylou Harris:
Tracks Starlite Walker
- Rebel Jew
- Advice to the Graduate
- Silver Pageant
- Moon Is the Number 18
- Tide to the Oceans
- Introduction II
- New Orleans
- Country Diary of a Subway Conductor
- Pan American Blues
- Trains Across the Sea
- Living Waters
Price: £16.99
Review Starlite Walker / Silver Jews:
Tracks Weird Tales
- Until You Came Along
- All The Same To Me
- Fear Of Falling
- Looking Forward To Seeing You
- Jennifer Save Me
- If Only I Had A Car
- Making Waves
- Please Tell My Brother
- Jane
- I Can't Stop From Talking
- To Call My Own
- Lost Love
- White Shell Road
- Keys
- Reflections On Me
Release date: 2002-04-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.09
Review Weird Tales / Golden Smog:
Tracks Science
- Outro [Instrumental]
- Still My Body Aches
- Maury the Pawn
- Always
- Dice
- U
- Something Real
- No One Would Ever Know
- B a Part
- How It Feels
- This Year
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.77
Review Science / Thomas Dybdahl:
Tracks The Gilded Palace of Sin
- Wheels
- Sin City
- Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome
- Hippie Boy
- Juanita
- Christine's Tune
- My Uncle
- Do Right Woman Do Right Man
- Dark End Of The Street
- Hot Burrito
Release date: 1993-12-31
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.48
Review The Gilded Palace of Sin / Flying Burrito Brothers:Had Gram Parsons died after the release of this, his masterpiece, his revered reputation as the architect of country-rock would have been assured. Following a stint with the Byrds on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, Parsons took Byrd-man Chris Hillman to really breath some fresh air into the Nashville old guard. By turns a traditionalist and an innovator, Parsons is pictured on the sleeve wearing a suit by Nudie, tailor to country stars, embroidered with images of women and marijuana leaves. He took the country blueprint and mixed it up with blue-eyed soul and slight rock touches, dragging it into the modern era with songs of a cracked, fragile beauty. This new direction was an immediate influence on the Rolling Stones and its emotional and creative power continues to reverberate through generations. -Ben Clancy.
Tracks Devil's Road
- When Fortune Smiles
- Leaving Kind
- Forgiveness Song
- Stopping Off Place
- Christmas Valley
- Fairground Blues
- Light Will Stay On
- Rebecca Wild
- Cold Eye
- For All This
- Blue Head Flame
Release date: 1996-04-01
RRP: £20.99
Price: £7.65
Review Devil's Road / Walkabouts:
Tracks The Fitzgerald
- Disappeared
- Don't Look and It Won't Hurt
- The Warehouse Life
- Laramie, Wyoming
- Casino Lights
- Welhorn Yards
- Making It Back
- Black Road
- The Janitor
- Exit 194B
- Incident at Conklin Creek
Release date: 2005-05-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.07
Review The Fitzgerald / Richmond Fontaine:
Tracks Have Faith
- Something You Can't Buy
- If Tears Could Talk
- Motel Time
- Pretty World
- Let's Get Started
- Have Faith
- Small Town Boy
- Woman's Touch
- Walk with Me
- This Place Ain't What It Used to Be
Release date: 2008-07-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £16.49
Review Have Faith / James Intveld:
Tracks Noble Creatures
- Spivey
- Cranky Mulatto
- Steeple Full of Swallows
- Few Extra Kilos
- Flavor on the Tongue
- Gyroscopic
- All in the Pack
- How Will You Shine?
- Kicks in the Sun
- Promenade
- Out on the Vine
- Moon Gone Down
- Red Letter Day
- Last Letter
Release date: 2007-08-13
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.73
Review Noble Creatures / Gourds:
Tracks World Won't End
- Shaken baby
- Our time has passed
- Bryte side
- Working girls (Sunlight shines)
- Endless supply
- 7:30
- She heightened everything
- Flaming wreck
- The ballad of Bjorn Borg
- Cronulla breakdown
- Let that show
Release date: 2001-06-11
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.57
Review World Won't End / Pernice Brothers:The second record by Joe Pernice's bright-eyed neo-country troupe The Pernice Brothers, The World Won't End is an album that tackles themes of magnificent love, desperate frustration and spirit-mangling depression. This is far from an extended misery-tract, though; well-versed in the canon of Bacharach, Wilson and Big Star, Pernice has always revelled in loosing the most difficult of emotions into a rolling meadow of summertime pop. These 11 tracks are wrapped up in a gorgeous whirl of pedal steel, violin and cello that's elegant, cathartic and-best of all-really nice to listen to when the sun's out. "Our Time Has Passed" mulls painfully over the nostalgic memories of a dead love affair: "There's a box I still can't open/ There's a name that hurts to say/ I fall in love with the way I'm shaking/ In a crowd I think I see your face". "Working Girl (Sunlight Shines)", meanwhile, is a brief but beautifully observed vignette of a young temp stuck in a dead-end job, left "contemplating suicide or a graduate degree". Throughout, though, Pernice's sympathetic vocal, full of hope and purity, turn such empty impasses into a celebration of humanity. The message of The World Won't End? Simply, that life goes on. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Cock a Doodle Don't
- Help Me From My Brain
- Pinetree Boogie
- Blood On The Bluegrass
- Clodhopper
- Shake Your Hips
- Devil's Night Auction
- Hoptown Jailbreak
- Bullfrog Blues
- Wild Wild Lover
- Hunkerdown
- CB Song
- Shakerag Holler
Release date: 2003-07-14
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.90
Review Cock a Doodle Don't / Legendary Shackshakers:
Tracks Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
- She's My Baby
- Poor Boy Blues
- Why Don't You Leave Me Alone?
- No Loving Tonight
- Juke Joint Jumping
- Summertime
- Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own
- Cold Lonesome Wind
- Friday and Saturday Night
- Big City Good Time Gal
- Double A Daddy
- Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
- Locomotive Joe
- Tag Along
RRP: £21.99
Price: £5.65
Review Thunderstorms and Neon Signs / Wayne Hancock:
Tracks Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator
- Copperhead Road
- Intro - Steve Earle
- Devil's Right Hand
- Other Kind
- Fearless Heart
- I Ain't Ever Satisfied
- Standin' on the Corner [Blue Yodel No. 9]
- Dead Flowers
- Rain Came Down
- Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)
- West Nashville Boogie
- Someday
- She's About a Mover
- Guitar Town
- I Love You Too Much
- Billy Austin
- Snake Oil
Release date: 1991-10-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.87
Review Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator / Steve Earle:
Tracks Low Estate
- Denver Grab
- Ditch Digger
- Hang My Teeth on Your Door
- For Heaven's Sake
- My Narrow Mind
- Fire Spirit
- Low Estate
- Sac of Religion
- Black Lung
- Brimstone Rock
- Golden Rope
- Pure Clob Road
- Partisan
- Phyllis Ruth
- Coal Black Horses
Release date: 2004-11-11
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.66
Review Low Estate / 16 Horsepower:Sixteen Horsepower's singer David Eugene Edwards brings such a mix of vitriol and faith to his music that were he born in a different place and time, I imagine he could have been a snake preacher. His songs explore that delicate and often explosive relationship between religion and real life, often with dire consequences: "I beseech the Lord clear my head / before once again I scar the soul of that girl in my bed," he sings on "Brimstone Rock" moments before letting loose a screech channeled from the devil by way of Nick Cave. The music is blistering, a take on hill-music that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion could've created had they been raised on moonshine and pig snouts. -Tod Nelson.
Tracks Once We Were Trees
- By your side
- Jugglers' revenge
- You take the gold
- The sun surrounds me
- Once we were trees
- Germination
- Old Manatee
- Banjo press conference
- Confusion is nothing new
- Close your eyes
- The hustler
- Hearts mend
- Let it run
- Yer selfish ways
- The good night whistle
Release date: 2002-05-09
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.95
Review Once We Were Trees / Beachwood Sparks:Beachwood Sparks' second album, Once We Were Trees, is a classic modern-day example of what Gram Parsons once called the Cosmic American music: florid, effects-laden psychedelic country rock with its heart in the rolling crop-fields of California, and it's head lost in the eddying clouds. The only thing that dates this as anything later than a relic of the mid 70s is an unexpected-and very fine-cover of Sade's "By Your Side": with Hammond organ, harmonica and pedal steel weaving in and out of the mix, this is unashamedly retro stuff. Still, there's much here to recommend Beachwood Sparks above the humdrum alt-country crop. With Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis on production duties, the likes of "Hearts Mend" and "The Good Night Whistle" sound authentically lo-fi and archaic-except the odd moment of indulgence, as on the title track, where he phases in a roar of electronic feedback over the closing instrumental swell. Even the more faithful countrified tracks hit the spot, though -the lush "Banjo Press Conference" recalls Calexico at their most exquisite, while the Deliverance-style twang of "Juggler's Revenge" nears real hoedown territory. Once We Were Trees: you'd better believe it's a grower. - Louis Pattison.
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Ramblin', Aw C'mon/No You C'mon, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: +CD [VINYL], Trinity Revisited: +DVD, Chelsea Walls: Original Soundtrack, Profile Vol.1: the Best of Emmylou Harris, Starlite Walker, Weird Tales, Science, The Gilded Palace of Sin, Devil's Road, The Fitzgerald, Have Faith, Noble Creatures, World Won't End, Cock a Doodle Don't, Thunderstorms and Neon Signs, Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator, Low Estate, Once We Were Trees |
