Features
Friday, December 24 2010
The Best 20 Re-Issues of 2010
The year's best re-issues are highlighted by a trio of rock gods in the Stones, Lennon and Bowie as well as a bona fide American jazz genius and a bevy seminal '70s and '80s British bands.
Thursday, December 18 2008
The Best Country Music of 2008
The year's best country music may be topped by archival releases from deceased artists, but the living managed to offer a strong alternative to the Nashvegas machine.
Columns
Monday, August 8 2011
Steve Earle's 'I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive'
A been-there-lived-it-attitude and street-level redemption, all propelled by a songwriter's/storyteller's lyrical and narrative knack.
Monday, February 2 2009
Hank's Other Side: Religion, Radio, and the Roots of Country Music
Hank Williams' recordings for WSM's Mother's Best Flour radio show challenge the modern listener's idea that country music reserves Jesus for Sunday morning.
Reviews
Thursday, October 13 2011
Various Artists: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
The only thing more exciting than the release of 12 previously unrecorded Hank Williams lyrics is the group of artists recruited to put them together.
Tuesday, October 4 2011
Hank Williams: The Legend Begins
The latest release from the estate of Hank Williams offers old amateur recordings and a nostalgic foray into radio entertainment circa 1949, but the music itself can't top his back catalogue.
Friday, November 12 2010
Hank Williams: The Complete Mother's Best Recordings
Part of the pleasure of these recordings is the opportunity they present for us to listen to particular sides of Hank Williams, to hear him from a particular angle. To hear him on the The Complete Mother's Best Recordings feels like a gift.
Wednesday, November 18 2009
Hank Williams: Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings
This, the second three-disc set in a series, features recordings from the Mother's Best radio programs.
Friday, December 12 2008
Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings
A legend's output is doubled with stellar results.
Blogs
Saturday, November 28 2009
Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings
Hank Williams - Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings - Time Life [$39.98]
News
Friday, January 22 2010
Straight-up country: Musical genre's love affair with alcohol
Each night I leave the bar room when it's over Not feeling any pain at closing time But tonight your memory found me much too…
