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In 2009, guitarist and songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps pushed his own envelope with Western Bell, an all-instrumental, decidedly experimental record that ... More

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Appearing a few months after the budget-line Playlist, The Essential Dixie Chicks is the kind of comprehensive collection this trio deserves. ... More

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The Dixie Chicks spent the first half of the '90s toiling away on the independent bluegrass circuit, releasing three albums on small labels, before ... More

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In Spite of Ourselves is John Prine's tribute to the music he grew up with -- good country songs written by folks like Roger Miller and Jack Clement. ... More

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Well, why not a Roches Christmas album? It's actually perfect, if you stop and think about it -- there's always been something cute and childlike ... More

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Chapin is one of the most professional and literate children's performers. His recordings, which include Family Tree and Shovlin', are among the ... More

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Few artists in popular music have roamed as restlessly as Linda Ronstadt. Since the mid-'80s, when she broke away from her sure-fire SoCal pop/rock ... More

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Robert Earl Keen, Jr. is a Texan who did not take the express lane to the radio airwaves. Instead, he spent more than a decade seasoning his talent ... More

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Prine took five years between his ninth studio album and this, his tenth -- enough time to gather his strongest body of material in more than a ... More

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Very good guitar playing. ~ Chip Renner, Rovi

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This foot-tapping, finger-snapping collection is done with a fresh approach. Tom brings humor and imagination to children in Billy the Squid. Parents ... More

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By the time he recorded his debut album I Know, John Gorka was already a seasoned veteran and it showed. With excellent harmony vocals from Shawn ... More

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If anyone needs to be convinced that Robert Earl Keen is the reigning champion of Texas twangers, Gravitational Forces makes one forceful knock-out ... More

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Robert Earl Keen, Jr. repeats only one song from his debut album, No Kinda Dancer, on his second release, the concert effort The Live Album, and that ... More

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Robert Earl Keen, Jr. has built a career out of making albums that straddle the line between the thoughtful and the comic, and twenty years into the ... More

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The best album of Loudon Wainwright III's career, History features a mix of the humorous and the serious, the autobiographical and the observational, ... More

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Artistically speaking, Nanci Griffith has been in somewhat of a funk since 1998's Other Voices, Too. 1999's The Dust Bowl Symphony offered a syrupy ... More

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Irish interpretive singer O'Connell has suffered from the inability of her record company to figure out whether she's a folkie, a country singer, or ... More

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Wandering Home is an apt title for Maura O'Connell's first all-Irish album since leaving the Old Sod. The players are a who's who of modern Celtic ... More

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When folk-rockers fail, it's usually by trying to fudge the line between folk and rock: the music either fails to adequately support the lyrics or it ... More

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John Prine's follow-up to his comeback album, The Missing Years, is more of the same in terms of freeing up Prine's idiosyncratic muse and marrying ... More

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A somewhat less ambitious record than Mudlark, from a recording standpoint, Greenhouse is a true solo record that offers several surprises. Over a ... More

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In another part of the world in 1979, post-punk bands like the Slits and the Raincoats were making prickly, challenging music from a female ... More

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