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(Shout! Factory)   www.shoutfactory.com   A cloud, inevitably, hangs over this tribute to erstwhile Miracle Legion frontman Mark Mulcahy. Even if you already knew that his wife Meli more...

(Black Hen Music)   www.blackhenmusic.com   Contrary to popular belief, the blues band was not a byproduct of the electric guitar's invention and the World War II migration of Afric more...

(429)   www.429records.com   Subtitled "A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village," The Village pays tribute to the early sixties folk revival, the era of Dylan, Tim Buckley, more...

(Harte)   www.Harterecordings.com   Best known for essaying the indigenous sounds and habits of the rural South and the Appalachians Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002) was a preservationist, more...

(Strut)   www.strut-records.com   This is the record you play for someone who thinks all disco was only mindless, lowest-common denominator dance music with no artistic redeeming va more...

(Warp)   www.warp.net   Just recently I was asked to provide a list of my picks for the 20 best albums of the ‘00s. No easy task, to say the least. However, a rough draft o more...

(The Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com   Re-issue kingpins The Numero Group's second collection of rocking gospel rarities Good God! Born Again Funk follows up 2006's Good God! A more...

(Preservation Hall Recordings) www.preservationhall.com   All-star duet albums are nothing new of course, although in most cases they're offered in an attempt to inject a certain hipness more...

(Strut)   www.strut-records.com   One could argue that for the American market, interest in African music began with the 1982 release of King Sunny Ade's Juju Music and the 1986 Shan more...

(Steady Boy)   www.steadyboyrecords.com   This is one of those tribute albums that has, in the parlance, legs. Boy, does it ever.   Now, you can flap your gums all day long ab more...