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(Blanco River Music)   www.sonsoffathers.net   With all due respect to Cash, Perkins, Presley and others born of the Sun sound in the mid ‘50s, Rock really began its country cro more...

(Capitol/EMI)   www.capitolrecords.com   So, this is what it felt like to be a fly on the wall during the 1966-67 sessions for mythical Beach Boys' album SMiLE. Capitol/EMI has fina more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   Make note, Misters Davies and Costello; singer, songwriter, author and auteur John Wesley Harding is crashing your turf. His new album captures the same more...

(Stones Throw)   www.stonesthrow.com   The title of M.E.D.'s new album may be a bit presumptuous, especially for a rapper who  seems to be constantly overshadowed by his friends more...

(Light in the Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net   One of the great lost tales from the back pages of American soul music is the story about Charles "Packy" Axton. The bouncing baby bo more...

 (Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   I have always been a fan of underdogs and contrarian opinions. That's one reason why I can't stand the clique nature of music journalism, c more...

(Gawd Aggie/Universal)   www.paulkelly.com.au   When Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly and his band the Messengers began releasing records in America in the mid-80s, critics co 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...

(Domino Records)             http://www.dominorecordco.com/   John Cale has always appeared to live on a different plane from the rest of more...

(Bloodshot)   www.bloodshotrecords.com)   Scott H. Biram's never been the type of guy you'd want to encounter in a back alley. Then again, that fearsome image is just that... an imag more...