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(Pinko Records)   www.jillsobule.com California Years is Jill Sobule's fuck-you to the music industry, and its backstory threatens to obscure the music itself. In something akin to the more...

(BluHammock Music)   www.bluhammock.com       In “Listening to NRBQ,” from his third album Misadventures in Stereo, Jim Boggia has created one of the great summe more...

(Black Hen Music)   www.blackhenmusic.com   The back cover of "My walking Stick" shows versatile country-blues singer/guitarist Jim Byrnes having a leisurely cup of coffee while sitt more...

(Factor) www.blackhenmusic.com   Jim Byrnes doesn't just sing the blues. He emulates them. A dedicated diehard, he claims to have been a devotee since his mid-teens, when he and a pal wou more...

(Punk Rock Blues)    www.punkrockblues.co.uk   Releasing their self-titled debut album in 2008, the Jim Jones Revue made quite a splash in their native U.K. with a ramshackle so more...

(Punk Rock Blues)   www.punkrockblues.com   Putting the "puh" back into "punk" and the "raw" back into "rawk" is Monsieur Jim Jones, a reprobate par excellence who proved his mettl more...

(Punk Rock Blues/Burnside)   www.jimjonesrevue.com   Burning Your House Down, the third disk from the Jim Jones Revue, is not only the best record by the band (including last year's se more...

(Easy Action)   www.jimmccarty.co.uk   Archivists and collectors may recognize Jim McCarty as the drummer for the Yardbirds, as well as for that band's two major offshoots, Renaissanc more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   After an eight year break from recording his own material to collaborate with his Wilco pals for Loose Fur and enjoy a short stint as a member of So more...

(Moon Haw Records) www.jimweider.com   It's the mark of an adventurous artist who can reinvent himself and do it in such a way as to leave his credibility intact.  So credit Jim Weid more...