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(Basin Street)   www.basinstreetrecords Look, there are a lot of cats in New Orleans, young and old, who can play the flavorful jazz-foink gumbo of the parish. But not a lot of them can more...

(GrittyDitty)   www.grittyditty.com   On Faith In The Shadows, Kerri Powers is a story-telling chronicler of the American Dream deferred. Equal parts honky tonk sweetheart, confessi more...

(Gigantic)   www.giganticmusic.com     Syd Barrett shot through with Scott Walker; that’s the impression I’ll provide those unacquainted with Ayers. Whether acting as more...

(Gnomonsong)   www.gnomonsong.com   There's no substitute for experience, and so it follows that Kevin Barker's work with the likes of Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan more...

(Casa Nueva Industries)   www.casanueva.net   Alongside the likes of Method Actors, Pylon and Love Tractor, Kevin Dunn is an integral part of the secret history of the Athens, Georg more...

(In The Red)   www.intheredrecords.com   Watchers of Kid Congo Powers - that would be Brian Tristan to friends and family - over the years have long noted the slide guitarist's inva more...

(In the Red)   www.inthered.com   With its crazed surf vamps, head-knocking Fall-like litanies, lurid poetry and vampiric sexuality, Kid Congo's third album with the Pink Monkey Bird more...

(Strut/!K7) www.strut-records.com     After his older brother held him back in mid-seventies one-hit wonders Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band ("Cherchez La Femme"), August Darnell more...

(Strut)   www.strut-records.com   "I put the reggae in the rock, the salsa in the pop, I put Sinatra in the pot, stirred it up a lot, I put calypso on the map and put the funk in you more...

(Atlantic)   www.atlanticrecords.com     Reportedly born of conversations between the Kid and his newest (uber) producer Rick Rubin (think Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond rather th more...