Cliff Eberhardt may have come up on the same '80s East Coast singer/songwriter scene as
Shawn Colvin, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, et al., but even from the beginning he had rock & roll -- and even pop -- aspirations. His ...
Canadian country singer/songwriter Kim Beggs may hail from north of the U.S.-Canada border, but she
maintains a familiar rural, working-class persona on her third album, Blue Bones. In her breathy, childlike voice, she recounts tales of lost souls, frequently drenched ...
While not as startlingly original as Sparrow's Point, Shindell's second CD is still far better
than the work of his many contemporaries. His political songs, Arrowhead and Fishing, make their points as affecting stories well told rather than by posturing. ...
Eric Andersen got his start as a singer/songwriter just about the time the folk revival
went bust in the mid-'60s, when the phrase singer/songwriter wasn't familiar, as it is today. Now, some 40 years later, Andersen continues to follow his ...
It's perhaps understandable if Kate Campbell fans have pictured her as standing -- in an
artistic manner -- still for the last several years. Her most recent albums have either consisted of covers (Twang on a Wire) or re-recordings of ...
Sam Graham once referred to Fahey as the curmudgeon of the acoustic guitar, while producer
Samuel Charters noted that Fahey was the only artist I ever worked with whose sales went down after he made public appearances. This tumultuous spirit, ...
Subtitled: Women in Song. This exceptional album leads off with Nanci Griffith and also includes
Shawn Colvin and Christine Lavin. Among the less well known names, the duo Palmer And Bragg turn in the impressive Bayonne and Megan McDonough contributes ...
The Kronos Quartet have famously refused to allow themselves to be hemmed in by the
narrower parameters of the traditional classical repertoire, devoting themselves to contemporary classical works, experimental pieces, and other compositions outside the usual confines of art music. ...
