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(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   In 2005 Big Star drummer Jody Stephens told this writer, of his initial tenure with the legendary Memphis combo in the early ‘70s, "I gotta admit, a more...

(self-released)   www.bigtreesings.com   In the space of a mere three songs, Big Tree leap so far across the musical spectrum that any attempt to aptly define them becomes nothing l more...

(Slumberland)   www.slumberlandrecords.com   After a low-key debut (Worry, released in 2010) this New Jersey quartet decided to go big time. Well, bigger time, anyway. They enlisted more...

(Custard Records)   www.custardrecords.com   California rockers Bigelf have been embraced by the prog-rock crowd because...well, because they're just too damn weird to fit into any more...

 (Miles Above)   www.thebiggerlovers.com   The debut album from Philadelphia's the Bigger Lovers has a tortured history. Recorded in 1999, it was originally slated for Mood Food, more...

(Summerfold)   www.billbruford.com   With their love of unusual time signatures and wandering instrumental passages, it should come as a surprise to no one that the prog rock player more...

(Winterfold)   www.billbruford.com     Drummer Bill Bruford is one of the living legends of the prog-and-art-rock world. The inventive percussionist was an early member of, pe more...

  (Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   An editor I wrote for years ago told me he didn't like Bill Callahan because he thought he was "trying too hard to sound like somebody else." I more...

(Collectors' Choice Music)   www.ccmusic.com   Long before CBS Records tried to remake him into the next Bruce Springsteen (no, I dunno why...maybe one wasn't enough?), Bill Chinnock more...

(Scat)   www.scatrecords.com   He would surely deny it, but Bill Fox is a freakin' genius. Among the thousands of albums on my shelves, I have likely returned to Bill Fox's recordin more...