Tracks Let's All Go to Bed
- Dynamite
- Soul's Journey Home
- I'll Meet You There
- Quiet Night
- When I Get My Wings
- Never Miss My Baby
- Can't Sleep in Tucson
- Kaki's Song
- Streets of Atlanta
- I'm Comin' Over
- I Give You My Word
- Let's All Go to Bed
Release date: 2008-06-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.22
Review Let's All Go to Bed / The Mother Truckers:
Tracks Last Date
- I'm Movin' On
- So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
- Another Pot O' Tea [*]
- Juanita
- Long May You Run
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- Buckaroo/Love's Gonna Live Here [Medley]
- We'll Sweep out the Ashes (In the Morning)
- Christine's Tune (A.K.A. Devil in Disguise)
- Return of the Grievous Angel
- (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date
- Racing in the Streets
- Maybe Tonight [*]
- Restless
RRP: £16.99
Price: £23.00
Review Last Date / Emmylou Harris:
Tracks Rabbit Fur Coat
- Big Guns
- Charging Sky
- Run Devil Run
- Handle with Care
- Born Secular
- Happy (Reprise)
- Melt Your Heart
- It Wasn't Me
- You Are What You Love
- Rabbit Fur Coat
- Happy
- Rise Up with Fists!!
Price: £14.99
Review Rabbit Fur Coat / Jenny Lewis With the Watson Tw:Previously best known as the front-woman of Rilo Kiley, Rabbit Fur Coat sees Jenny Lewis breaking out on her own to stunning effect. Teaming up with gospel singers Chandra and Leigh Watson, with a little help from producer M. Ward, and collaborations with Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and DCFC's Ben Gibbard, this is alt. country at its finest-sweet, heartfelt and deceptively simplistic. Drawing inspiration from the record collection she shared with her mother whilst growing up, the album definitely has an old Americana feel to it, and several tracks wouldn't be out of place on a Harry Smith anthology. Stand out tracks include the stunning gospel-tinged harmonies of "Rise Up With Fists!", the gorgeous "Melt Your Heart" (reminiscent of Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You") and the full on toe-tapping country hoedown assault of "The Big Guns". To be fair, though, all the tracks on here earn their place, and even the somewhat strange inclusion of a cover of the Travelling Wilburys' "Handle With Care" works somehow. A truly exceptional gem of a record. -Melanie Wilkin.
Tracks Wild Mountain Nation
- Sci Fi Kid
- Wild Mountain Nation
- Green King Sings
- Cool Love #1 (bonus track
- Boss King (bonus track)
- Woof And Warp Of The Quiet Giant's Hem
- Devil's A Go Go
- Summer Town
- Country Caravan
- Badger's Black Brigade
- Wild Mtn Jam
- Miss Spiritual Tramp
- Hot Tip/Tough Club
- Murder Babe
- Futures And Folly
Release date: 2007-10-22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.10
Review Wild Mountain Nation / Blitzen Trapper:
Tracks The Sugar Tree
- Sleepin' With The Moon
- Wait Till I Get You Home
- Balls
- Stop Showing Up In My Dreams
- Let Me In A Little Bit
- Happy For You
- Magicians
- You Get To Me
- Cynically Yours
- Better Stay Gone
- If You Won't Hang Around
- Rode Hard
- Angels After Hours
Release date: 2001-03-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.43
Review The Sugar Tree / Amy Rigby:
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Tracks Love Song for Bobby Long [Us Import]
- Blonde on Blonde - Nada Surf
- Barbara Allen - John Travolta
- This Isn't It - Giant Drag
- Bone - Thalia Zedek
- Praying Ground Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins,
- Different Stars - Trespassers William
- Bobby - Nathan Larson, Lyle Molzan, Joan Wasser
- Someday - Los Lobos
- Rising Son - Big Bill Morganfield
- I Really Don't Want to Know - John Travolta
- Daughter Like Mother - Nathan Larson, Lyle Molzan, Joan Wasser
- Early Every Morning - Magic Slim, ,
- Lorraine's Song (My Heart Was a Lonely Hunter) - Theresa Andersson, Grayson Capps
- Love Song for Bobby Long - Grayson Capps
- Washboard Lisa - Grayson Capps
- Lonesome Blues - Lonnie Pitchford
Release date: 2005-01-11
RRP: £21.99
Price: £6.78
Review Love Song for Bobby Long [Us Import] / Original Soundtrack:
Tracks Together at the Bluebird
- Cape - Clark, Guy
- Song For - Van Zandt, Townes
- I Ain't Ever Satisfied - Earle, Steve
- Mercenary Song - Earle, Steve
- Randall Knife - Clark, Guy
- Tom Ame's Prayer - Earle, Steve
- Ain't Leavin Your Love - Van Zandt, Townes
- Pancho And Lefty - Van Zandt, Townes
- My Old Friend The Blues - Earle, Steve
- Immigrant Song - Clark, Guy
- Valentine's Day - Earle, Steve
- Katie Belle - Van Zandt, Townes
- Dublin Blues - Clark, Guy
- Copperhead Road - Earle, Steve
- Tecumush Valley - Van Zandt, Townes
- Baby Took A Limo To Memphis - Clark, Guy
Release date: 2004-03-22
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.99
Review Together at the Bluebird / Steve Earle:Together at the Bluebird is a live recording of the gathering of three titans of modern American songwriting: Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. On September 13, 1995, this like-minded triumvirate of country-folk singer/songwriters joined forces for a good old-fashioned song swap. The music's warmth and relaxed vibe make it sound like it was recorded on someone's back porch in Texas as opposed to Nashville's Bluebird Café. Pulled together for an Interfaith Dental Clinic benefit by Guy Clark's wife Susanna, the three old friends sing songs and tell stories in an intimate acoustic-and-a-stool atmosphere in front of an appreciative audience-what more can you ask for when you have such compelling songwriters? The ravenous cult fans of these artists will want to add these delightful performances to their collections, but newcomers will get an engaging and useful primer on the modern Texas troubadour style. -Marc Greilsamer.
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Tracks Mosaic [VINYL]
- Slota Prow/Full Armour
- Twig
- Winter Shaker
- Dirty Blue
- Little Raven
- Whistling Girl
- Breathing Bull
- Bible and Bird
- Elktooth
- Deerskin Doll
- Swedish Purse
- Truly Golden
Release date: 2006-10-02
Price: £10.99
Review Mosaic [VINYL] / Woven Hand:
Tracks Hoarse
- Black Soul Choir
- South Pennsylvania Waltz
- Horse Head
- Black Lung
- For Heaven´s Sake
- Brimstone Rock
- Fire Spirit
- Low Estate
- American Wheeze
- Day Of The Lords
- Bad Moon Risin´
Release date: 2001-03-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.79
Review Hoarse / 16 Horsepower:Hoarse was recorded on 16 Horsepower's 1998 tour, mostly in their home town of Denver, and could be thought of as either a complement or an introduction to their studio works. Marvellous though 16 Horsepower's studio albums are, the band has always been at their best on stage. Live, the elemental ferocity of their unique gothic country sound has room to breathe, and frontman David Eugene Edwards' medicine show preacher persona is all the more effective. 16 Horsepower's performances of their own songs here are terrific-especially "American Wheeze" and "Black Soul Choir"-but the real value for fans here lies in the three cover versions: Joy Division's "Day of the Lords" and The Gun Club's "Fire Spirit" both sound like they were meant to be played on banjos, slide guitar and accordions; while Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" is shorn of the jauntiness of the original and presented as an epic, baleful hymn. -Andrew Mueller.
Tracks Waves Are Universal
- Beautiful Feeling
- Deelay
- Sleepless and Tooting
- No Substitute
- Plucked
- Thru The Dawn
- Shoulder The Blame
- Hope
- Coastline
- Gather Me Up
- Save Yourself
- Warm Summer Sun
Release date: 2004-06-14
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.62
Review Waves Are Universal / Rachel Goswell:
Tracks Loud & Lonesome
- Three Feet Under
- Rain Won't Stop
- One More Moment Gone
- I'm Not Alone
- Way Outside
- Downtown at Midnight
- Red Apple Juice
- Autumn Rose
- Long Gone Dream
- Song for the Walls
- Miles from the Nadrine
Release date: 1995-05-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.45
Review Loud & Lonesome / Eric Ambel & Roscoe's Gang:
Tracks Copperhead Road
- Even When I'm Blue
- Waiting on You
- Johnny Come Lately - Steve Earle, Steve Earle, Steve Earle
- Back to the Wall - Steve Earle, Steve Earle, Steve Earle
- Once You Love
- Devil's Right Hand - Steve Earle, Steve Earle, Steve Earle
- Copperhead Road
- Nothing But a Child
- Snake Oil
- You Belong to Me
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.36
Review Copperhead Road / Steve Earle:It happens to every hardened party goer-your lifestyle eventually catches up to you. For Steve Earle, this third effort from the then-roué-ish troubadour was a pretty glaring rehab-ahead warning light. The sloppiness was beginning to show: half the disc bogs down in throwaways, cheap echoes of Guitar Town's country-rock acumen. The rest, fortunately, is prime, focused Earle: the Vietnam-vet title track, the Wild West-themed "Snake Oil", the rousing "Johnny Come Lately" which features backing from the Pogues and the oft-covered classic "The Devil's Right Hand", in which the composer achieves that perfect balance of city-slick pop and hillbilly twang. Earle would hit that one-two combo again, but not until he shook that party monkey a few albums later. -Tom Lanham.
Tracks Cold Dog Soup
- Ain't No Trouble To Me
- Indian Head Penny
- Sis Draper
- Be Gone Forever
- Die Tryin'
- Red River
- Fort Worth Blues
- Cold Dog Soup
- Water Under The Bridge
- Men Will Be Boys
- Forever For Always For Certain
- Bunkhouse Blues
Release date: 1999-12-13
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.49
Review Cold Dog Soup / Guy Clark:If this front-porchy set disappoints, it's only because, as dean of singer-songwriters, Guy Clark has established such imposing standards. Rather than offering the exacting, patient craftsmanship we've come to expect, many of these new tunes feel like playful ephemera, the result of a friendly all-night song swap-though it hardly hurts if your friends include Emmylou Harris, Verlon Thompson, and Darrell Scott. Closer inspection, however, reveals a more serious purpose. Starting with Steve Earle's "Fort Worth Blues", through "Water Under the Bridge" (in which all things pass away), on to Richard Dobson's "Forever, for Always, for Certain", a recognition of the tricks that time can play, Cold Dog Soup is suffused with visions of mortality. The album ends with three exquisite hymns to life in the face of death. In "Red River", Clark celebrates his family history; in "Die Tryin'" life is defined as risk; and in "Be Gone Forever", penned by Anna McGarrigle and Keith Sykes, Clark finds consolation in memory and music. Even if much of Cold Dog Soup isn't up to Clark's best, this closing autumnal suite, played with devil-may-care élan and joy, certainly is. -Roy Kasten.
Tracks Blame the Vain
- I Wanna Love Again
- Last Heart In Line
- Watch Out
- I'll Pretend
- She'll Remember
- When I First Came Here
- Just Passin' Time
- Does It Show
- Blame The Vain
- Three Good Reasons
- Lucky That Way
- Intentional Heartache
Release date: 2005-06-13
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.99
Review Blame the Vain / Dwight Yoakam:
Tracks Decoration Day [VINYL]
- Your Daddy Hates Me
- Loaded Gun In The Closet
- Heathens
- Outfit
- Deeper In
- Hell No I Ain't Happy
- Do It Yourself
- Sinkhole
- Sounds Better In The Song
- Decoration Day
- My Sweet Annette
- Marry Me
- Something's Got To Give Pretty Soon
- When The Pin Hits The Shell
- Careless
Release date: 2008-02-11
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.35
Review Decoration Day [VINYL] / Drive By Truckers:
Tracks Feast of Wire [VINYL]
- Dub Latina
- Attack el Robot! Attack!
- Across the Wire
- No Doze
- Stucco
- Close Behind
- Not Even Stevie Nicks...
- Whipping the Horse's Eyes
- Pepita
- Crumble
- Quattro (World Drifts In)
- Book and the Canal
- Woven Birds
- Black Heart
- Güero Canelo
- Sunken Waltz
Release date: 2008-01-29
Price: £12.99
Review Feast of Wire [VINYL] / Calexico:It takes time to digest this Feast of Wire. The melodic appeal of Calexico's fourth album is not instantaneous, these evocative sounds taking time with their bodily infusion. The studio manifestation of Calexico is centred around impressively multi-instrumental busybody Joey Burns and the more single-minded (but equally sensitive) percussion specialist John Convertino. The current road-band members are also on hand to contribute their own shadings, along with a strong contingent of string players and backing singers. Recorded at home in Tucson, Arizona, all of the tunes are quite short, lending an episodic, soundtrack quality. The canvas is extremely broad, with horns and strings colouring the edges, while Burns tinkers about on accordion, organ, mandolin, melodica and synths. "Sunken Waltz" makes a modest opener, a traipsing ballad that's quickly overtaken by the rubberised bounce of "Quattro". "Black Heart" provides an early peak, its unearthly string arrangement backing a beautifully resigned Burns vocal. It's like an old 78 record, remixed last week, ending with a decelerated glide that crackles with electronic interference. "Attack El Robot! Attack!" is also rife with electro-roughage, blanketing its toytown guitar figures and brass fanfares. [+]These instrumental vignettes have a habit of linking up the more reclined narrative-based songs. The more overtly Mexican material is saved until close to the finish, with the quavering trumpets and weeping violins of "Dub Latina" and "Guero Canelo" contributing to a more typically Calexico-ed sound, if such a thing is still possible. -Martin Longley.
Tracks Best of the Sugar Hill Years
- Seven Nights in Eire
- Snowfall
- Baby's Got a Whole Lot More
- Rider in the Rain - Joe Ely, Reckless Kelly
- Stick Around
- Set Me Free
- You Don't Want Me Around
- Vancouver
- Wicked Twisted Road
- Crazy Eddie's Last Hurrah [Live]
- Nobody's Girl
- Broken Heart
- Motel Cowboy Show
- Let's Just Fall
- Break My Heart Tonight
Release date: 2007-07-16
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99
Review Best of the Sugar Hill Years / Reckless Kelly:
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Tracks Flying Upside Down [Us Import]
- Let Me In
- One Thing
- When the Time Is Right
- I Remember (It's Happening Again)
- Flying Upside Down
- Guy That Says Goodbye to You Is out of His Mind
- Lonely One
- Hangin' On (Tom's Song)
- Heart of Stone
- Live to Be Free
- Good for You
- Waiting for the Rain to Come Down
- Better Than Love
Release date: 2008-04-29
RRP: £21.99
Price: £7.42
Review Flying Upside Down [Us Import] / Griffin House:
Tracks Train a Comin'
- Mercenary Song
- Rivers of Babylon
- Hometown Blues
- Ben McCulloch
- Nothin' Without You
- Northern Winds
- Mystery Train, Pt. 2
- Angel Is the Devil
- Goodbye
- Tecumseh Valley
- Sometimes She Forgets
- I'm Looking Through You
- Tom Ames' Prayer
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.25
Review Train a Comin' / Steve Earle:
Price: £8.01
Review Asking for Flowers:
| Models & Brands:
Let's All Go to Bed, Last Date, Rabbit Fur Coat, Wild Mountain Nation, The Sugar Tree, Love Song for Bobby Long [Us Import], Together at the Bluebird, Mosaic [VINYL], Hoarse, Waves Are Universal, Loud & Lonesome, Copperhead Road, Cold Dog Soup, Blame the Vain, Decoration Day [VINYL], Feast of Wire [VINYL], Best of the Sugar Hill Years, Flying Upside Down [Us Import], Train a Comin', Asking for Flowers |
