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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors – Deluxe Edition

Doug Collette April 4, 2008 No Comments

If you want to talk about tragic irony in rock and roll, you can’t ignore the story of Lynyrd Skynyrd. On the threshold, and deliberately so, of capturing the mainstream audience with which they flirted via the popularity of “Sweet Home Alabama” in 1975, a plane crash took the life of three bandmembers in 1977 merely days after the release of Street Survivors, compelling the label to pull the album and re-release it with new cover art in place of the original version which depicted the band in flames.

David Ford: Songs for the Road

Jason Gonulsen April 3, 2008 No Comments

British singer-songwriter David Ford’s last album, I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I’ve Caused, was so inspiring that Neil Young’s longtime manager, Eliot Roberts, asked for two copies—one for him, and one for Neil.

De Novo Dahl: Move Every Muscle, Make Every Move

Bob Lange April 2, 2008 No Comments

De Novo Dahl find themselves in the difficult position of following up their amazing Shout EP with a full-length release. Even if they were able to reproduce the exuberance of "Shout" (the best musical expression of joy since U2's "Beautiful Day") over the course of the entire album, I think it may well have killed me (albeit with happiness).

Jackie Greene: Giving Up The Ghost

Doug Collette March 31, 2008 No Comments

Each of Jackie Greene’s albums, from 2002’s Gone Wanderin' to 2006’s American Myth, has marked a definite progression for the young Californian and Giving Up The Ghost is no exception.

Sun Kil Moon: April

Jason Gonulsen March 31, 2008 No Comments

April carries on the momentum of Ghosts of the Great Highway, leading off with the ambitious nine-minute gem, “Lost Verses,” which ranks with one of the best songs that Mark Kozelek has written.

Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward

Alex Drumm March 27, 2008 No Comments

Trashing garage rock, Nashville’s Be Your Own Pet packs a punch that seems to thumb its nose at every other garage rock band in music today with Get Awkward.

The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely

Shawn Donohue March 26, 2008 No Comments

When Broken Boy Soldiers was released, the hype surrounding Jack White’s first venture into a side project was massive, yet there has been almost no advance hype surrounding Consolers of the Lonely, the Raconteurs’ second release (sent to Press and Public at the same time and day) and I am sure they couldn’t be happier with the silence.

Astrid Williamson: Boy For You

Jason Gonulsen March 24, 2008 No Comments

Produced by Malcom Burn (Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan), Boy for You works well because it never really lets go of its bouncy pace. Not an introspective songwriter, Williamson sings about what is around her — an observant voice that declares: “you look like someone I should love” on the beautiful “Someone.” Williamson, with her buoyant energy, sure sounds like someone a lot of people will love for years to come.

Elvis Costello: This Year’s Model – Deluxe Edition

Doug Collette March 24, 2008 No Comments

The second album in a triptych that includes My Aim is True and Armed Forces, This Year’s Model is now available in a deluxe two-Dd edition, compiling the various b-sides and singles Costello released around this time, as well as a full concert from 1978 with his band The Attractions,

Tift Merritt: Another Country

Jason Gonulsen March 20, 2008 No Comments

In late 2006, Lost Highway Records dropped Tift Merritt. Her final album with the label, Tambourine, garnered a Grammy nomination and general high praise, but it left Merritt as an independent musician. Clueless by the decision and tapped of her energy, Merritt, who had been living in Paris at the time, still felt one thing to be true: her songs that would eventually become her third album, Another Country, would win out.

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