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Radney Foster: This World We Live In

[22.May.06] :. Like both Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, Foster's music is stripped down with a southern twang that more tightly ties it to the country camp than country-rock bands like The Eagles or alt.country poster boy Ryan Adams.

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Reckless Kelly: Wicked Twisted Road

[20.May.05] :. Reckless Kelly proves to be a fine-tuned precision machine, with all parts working in tandem to produce a solid, often breathtaking, piece of alt-country beauty.

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Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust

[25.Apr.05] :. It is, by turns, a country record, a folk record and even a bit of a rock record. It is thick with atmosphere, awash in violence and a shadowy mythology redolent of the Old West.

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Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney

[22.Mar.05] :. McKinney sets out to re-place the greatest band in rock and roll history within the context of the volatile time in which the band exploded into the public consciousness, changing the band, its four members and everyone forever.

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Various Artists: Give 'Em the Boot IV

[14.Mar.05] :. Hit-and-miss punk compilation often chooses empty aggression over the grace and commitment of the genre's hallmarks.

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Music Charlie Robison: Good Times

Music Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express: Turn the Pigeons Loose

Music The Grip Weeds: Giant on the Beach

Music John Mellencamp: Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits

Music The Silos: When the Telephone Rings

Music The Legends: Up Against the Legends

Music The Pretty Things: Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things

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Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts... Now

[1.Sep.04] :. The release of this record two and a half months before we have to enter the voting booths should offer solace and inspiration to those ready to act.

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Music Doc and Merle Watson: Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues

Music Dave Edmunds: From Small Things: The Best of Dave Edmunds

Music The Toasters: In Retrospect: The Best of the Toasters

Music Bobbie Gentry: Chickasaw Country Child: The Artistry of Bobbie Gentry

Music Various Artists: Bar Room Blues: A 12-track Program

Music Joykiller: Ready Sexed Go!

Music The A.M.: self-titled

Music Randall Bramblett: Thin Places

Music Bob Marley and the Wailers: Grooving Kingston 12 (JAD Masters 1970-1972)

Music Ellis Hooks: Uncomplicated

Music Steve Forbert: Rock While I Can Rock: The Geffen Years

Music Tom Russell: Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs

DVDs Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live in Barcelona [DVD]

Music Dead Kennedys: Live at the Deaf Club

Music Little Richard: Get Down with It: The Okeh Years

DVDs Jim Croce: Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live [DVD]

Music Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

Music Andy Leftwich: Ride

Music Josh Turner: Long Black Train

Music Various Artists: Johnny Cash: Artist's Choice

Music Tony Furtado and the American Gypsies: Live Gypsy

Music Various Artists: Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers

Music Slipstream: Transcendental

Books Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow

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Joe Strummer: Streetcore

[21.Nov.03] :. Streetcore, is a tragic testament to Strummer's gifts as a songwriter and musician, a political and spiritual disc, a great rock-and-roll record that questions the state of the world and somehow simultaneously looks both forward and backward.

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