Although they may seem an unlikely pairing, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby, who already have
a 2007 album together under their belt, complement each other well, bringing a fresh, jazzy good humor and a whole lot of slick, rustic swing ...
While his big rival and former employer, 50 Cent, squandered his success by spreading himself
too thin with video games, films, and a whole lot of time devoted to the G-Unit empire, the Game spent his time working the streets ...
Robert Earl Keen has been playing the Texas singer/songwriter circuit for over three decades, and
as a guy who often favors the acoustic side of the country and Americana music scenes, it's no kind of surprise that he's crossed paths ...
Here's the Man! contains recordings Bland cut for the Duke label in the early '60s.
It has the same intensity and variety of his late-'50s breakthrough album, Two Steps From the Blues, and mimics that album's program of big band-blues ...
Fans held their breath when Rick Rubin took the Avett Brothers under his wing. What
would the co-head of Columbia Records -- a man known for recording rap-rock albums and resurrecting Johnny Cash's late career -- do with a small-time ...
David Crosby's debut solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name is a one-shot
wonder of dreamy but ominous California ambience. The songs range from brief snapshots of inspiration (the angelic chorale-vocal showcase on Orleans and the a cappella ...
Jim Lauderdale embodies the very meaning of Americana. Over 25 previous albums, he's recorded everything
from blues to bluegrass, rock to honky tonk, solo acoustic folk records to R&B and collaborated with a slew of artists including Ralph Stanley. His ...
After presenting almost all-original sets on his first two albums (albeit originals that sometimes borrowed
heavily from traditional folk themes), Jansch opted to devote all of his third LP to traditional folk numbers. His future Pentangle partner John Renbourn joins ...