Bear Family's three-volume And the Answer Is: Great Answer Discs from the '50s and '60s
series documents the phenomenon of answer records, presenting both the original hit and the response to the single. These were songs designed to respond to ...
If the heavy-hitters of outlaw country were acting like rock stars during their mid-'70s peak,
then perhaps it was inevitable that the outlaws would start singing rock songs -- which is precisely what Waylon Jennings did on 1976's Are You ...
There could only ever be one Slim Whitman. A left-handed guitar player with an arresting
falsetto vocal style that sounds eerily like Johnny Mathis blended with Roy Orbison, Whitman fell to the western side of country music, but he also ...
Where Greatest Hits had the bulk of Tom T. Hall's greatest story songs, Greatest Hits,
Vol. 2 concentrates on his silly, cutesy songs, like Sneaky Snake, I Like Beer, I Love, and Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine, among seven ...
After the surprise success of their landmark debut, Violent Femmes could have just released another
collection of teen-rage punk songs disguised as folk, and coasted into the modern rock spotlight alongside contemporaries like the Modern Lovers and Talking Heads. Instead ...
The eponymous follow-up to 2015's lovely and understated Over and Even, Joan Shelley sees the
Louisville, Kentucky-based singer/songwriter and her partner in crime Nathan Salsburg delivering a warm breeze of a record that unfolds like a curl of smoke from ...
Ian Matthews left Fairport Convention in 1969, and while the U.K.'s greatest folk-rock band was
beginning to reinvent itself in a more traditional and very British direction, Matthews began digging deeper into the American influences that had marked his old ...
Recorded over six days with the help of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Joe Henry, who helmed
2011's The Long Surrender, Meet Me at the Edge of the World features 18 original songs (and one cover), and was inspired by the pre-Civil ...