 | Just Us Kids by James McMurtry
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.93 JAMES McMURTRY
This is another great set from James -- a mix of political diatribes & portraits of the down-and-out. I saw him in electric power-trio format at Juanita's in Little Rock on Nov. 22nd. Too bad it was cranked so loud it made my ears bleed and the lyrics were drowned by guitar & bass, other than that it was a great show, featuring these songs...
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 | Letters From The Underground by Levellers
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $9.99 THE LEVELLERS (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
This latest release from the British anarcho-Celtic-folk-rockers is being hailed as a "return to form." They were one of my favorite bands of the mid-'90s, and this new one still sounds good, if not on the same level as the self-titled 1994 disc or ZEITGEIST from 1996.
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 | Tooth of Crime by T Bone Burnett
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $3.23 T BONE BURNETT
Finally released!, featuring Marc Ribot, Jim Keltner & Sam Phillips. Originally scheduled for release in 2000, this is the music from a 1996 production of the 1972 Sam Shepard drama. The best song, "Kill Zone," appeared on the TWENTY/TWENTY retrospective in 2006.
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 | Dear Science by TV on the Radio
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.18 TV ON THE RADIO
latest from one of the best new bands in recent years
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 | Sugar Mountain-Live At Canterbury House 1968 (CD/DVD-A) by Neil Young
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.13 NEIL YOUNG
This is an acoustic Neil set from 1968, the latest in the NYAPS (Neil Young Archive Performance Series) from Reprise.
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 | Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.80 BOB DYLAN
Rare and Unreleased, 1989 -- 2006, covering the period from OH MERCY to MODERN TIMES.
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 | Little Honey by Lucinda Williams
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.95 LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Lucinda rocks out on her latest!
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 | Momofuku by Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.60 ELVIS COSTELLO
Latest from Elvis & the Imposters -- they put on a great show in Shreveport on April 25th!
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 | @#%&*! Smilers by Aimee Mann
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.44 AIMEE MANN) excellent set from one of the best songwriters around
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 | Brighter Than Creation's Dark by Drive-By Truckers
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.24 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS) great stuff, definitely one of the best of the year
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 | Sex and Gasoline by Rodney Crowell
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.66 RODNEY CROWELL) Rodney's latest, produced by Joe Henry, with a superb band including Doyle Bramhall II on guitar
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 | Accelerate by R.E.M.
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.28 R.E.M.) R.E.M. is back, seemingly energized by the election year, and thinking about the end of the Cheney/Bush era! Great appearance on the Colbert Report!
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 | Break Up the Concrete by The Pretenders
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.39 THE PRETENDERS) Chrissie's first in six years
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 | Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.23 DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO) Music by Eno, lyrics by Byrne -- some say it sounds more like the Talking Heads albums produced by Eno (including FEAR OF MUSIC and REMAIN IN LIGHT) than anything since!
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 | Modern Guilt by Beck
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.99 BECK) Unfortunately Beck's latest sounds more like THE INFORMATION, which did not impress me, than GUERO, which I thought was great.
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 | Consolers Of The Lonely
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.47 RACONTEURS) Jack White's other band with a strong set of pop/rock for what ails you.
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 | Angels of Destruction by Marah
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.74 MARAH) latest from the young Philly band
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 | Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.14 MY MORNING JACKET) Jim James and company take a turn toward the more popular
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 | Tennessee Pusher by Old Crow Medicine Show
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.19 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW) Don Was produces, and Jim Keltner plays the drums as OCMS moves away from pure bluegrass
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 | All I Intended to Be by Emmylou Harris
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.98 EMMY LOU HARRIS) Another set of covers full of grief and loss, mining the territory she found with WRECKING BALL (1995), but not quite as good.
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 | One Kind Favor by B.B. King
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.42 B.B. KING) With T Bone Burnett producing and Jim Keltner on drums, some say it's B.B.'s best studio album ever.
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 | Harps & Angels by Randy Newman
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.24 RANDY NEWMAN) Randy's first set in 10 years, with a great song about Bush & Cheney
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 | Don't Do Anything by Sam Phillips
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $4.51 SAM PHILLIPS) Sam 's third record for Nonesuch is the first she produced herself, and is punched up with guitar compared to FAN DANCE and A BOOT AND A SHOE.
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 | Watch the Sky by Patty Larkin
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.94 PATTY LARKIN) excellent new record from Patty
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 | Real Animal by Alejandro Escovedo
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.52 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO) Escovedo revisits his punk-rock past
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 | Carried to Dust by Calexico
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.47 CALEXICO) the Tucson-based band leads off their latest set of southwestern music with "Victor Jara's Hands" -- Jara was the leftist folksinger murdered by Pinochet in Chile
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 | Rising Down by The Roots
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $2.50 ROOTS) latest political rap out of Philly
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.50 PORTISHEAD) No trip-hop nostalgia or ad music, this new one is less smooth & predictable, less chilly, a more jagged piece of psychedelia.
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 | Nine Lives by Steve Winwood
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.50 STEVE WINWOOD) From the cover, this looks like another lame "Roll With It." But I noticed a reviewer complaining that it sounds too much like Traffic, and I knew it might be good ... it is! Winwood can still make that Traffic sound without the sorely missed Jim Capaldi, and if you love that Traffic sound, ignore the lame packaging and check this one out!
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 | Blame It On Gravity by Old 97's
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.40 OLD 97's) latest from one of the core alt.country bands of the mid/late '90s
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 | The Band of Heathens by The Band of Heathens
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.99 THE BAND OF HEATHENS) Austin country-rockers
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 | Just A Little Lovin' by Shelby Lynne
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.16 SHELBY LYNNE) a Dusty Springfield tribute
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 | Mockingbird by Allison Moorer
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.49 ALLISON MOORER)
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 | Warpaint by The Black Crowes
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.98 BLACK CROWES) A quintessential '90s band, the Robinson Brothers ran out of inspiration in the new decade and disbanded. But they're now back with a good new one, perhaps their best since AMORICA (1994)...
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 | Another Country by Tift Merritt
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $1.14 TIFT MERRITT)
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 | Asking for Flowers by Kathleen Edwards
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.96 KATHLEEN EDWARDS)
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 | Vagabonds by Gary Louris
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.52 GARY LOURIS) the first solo record from the former Jayhawk
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 | One More Night with Chris Smither
CHRIS SMITHER) video of a recent concert by one of the best folk/blues singer-songwriter-guitarists today
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 | Live at Shea Stadium by The Clash
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.60 THE CLASH -- 1982) complete show from the 1982 "Combat Rock" tour -- I saw them at the Aragon in Chicago on that tour...
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 | Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 by The Byrds
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.65 THE BYRDS -- 1971) great live set by the late-period Byrds, a country-rock quartet
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