 | Tooth of Crime by T Bone Burnett
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.98 T BONE BURNETT) Finally released!, featuring Marc Ribot, Jim Keltner and 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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 | Just Us Kids by James McMurtry
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.85 JAMES McMURTRY) another great set from James, the malevolence and incompetence of Cheney/Bush really seems to have fired him up
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 | Brighter Than Creation's Dark by Drive-By Truckers
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $8.49 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS) great stuff, best of the year so far
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 | @#%&*! Smilers by Aimee Mann
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $13.56 AIMEE MANN) excellent set from one of the best songwriters around
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 | Accelerate by R.E.M.
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.99 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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 | The Future Is Unwritten
Buy new: $14.97 / Used from: $19.85 JOE STRUMMER) By all accounts this is a great new documentary about one of my all-time favorites, titled with one of my all-time favorite sayings!
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 | Modern Guilt by Beck
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.94 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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 | Big Blue Ball by Sinead OConnor, Karl Wallinger, Various Artists Peter Gabriel
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $13.49 REAL WORLD) 17 years in the making, 75 artists from 20 countries, recorded by Peter Gabriel and Real World in the early 90s and mixed and produced between projects
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 | Consolers Of The Lonely
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.99 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: $15.99 / Used from: $7.45 MARAH) latest from the young Philly band
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 | Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.95 MY MORNING JACKET) Jim James and company take a turn toward the more popular
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 | All I Intended to Be by Emmylou Harris
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.99 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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 | Momofuku by Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.50 ELVIS COSTELLO) Latest from Elvis & the Imposters -- they put on a great show in Shreveport on April 25th!
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 | Don't Do Anything by Sam Phillips
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.95 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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 | Loverly by Cassandra Wilson
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.25 CASSANDRA WILSON) Wilson long since moved from jazz into pop, but she brought the instrumentation and feel of jazz with her. Stay tuned for word on her latest.
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 | Real Animal by Alejandro Escovedo
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $9.89 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO) Escovedo revisits his punk-rock past
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 | Beautiful World by Eliza Gilkyson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.99 ELIZA GILKYSON) latest from the Austin singer-songwriter, with progressive sentiments on war and the environment
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 | Watch the Sky by Patty Larkin
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.99 PATTY LARKIN) excellent new record from Patty
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 | Harps & Angels by Randy Newman
Buy new: $9.99 RANDY NEWMAN (AUGUST 5)
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 | Rising Down by The Roots
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.79 ROOTS) latest political rap out of Philly
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 | Attack and Release by The Black Keys
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $10.88 BLACK KEYS) their most adventurous outing yet
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.48 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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 | Songs in A&E by Spiritualized
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $7.99 SPIRITUALIZED) Speaking of psychedelia, here's the latest from Jason Pierce & Co...
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 | Nine Lives by Steve Winwood
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.47 STEVE WINWOOD) 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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 | Boo! by Was (Not Was)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.44 WAS (NOT WAS)) Sweet Pea Atkinson's vocals and the songwriting and production of the Was Brothers return, after 20 years!
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 | Blame It On Gravity by Old 97's
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.99 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: $8.00 THE BAND OF HEATHENS) Austin country-rockers
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 | Just A Little Lovin' by Shelby Lynne
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.85 SHELBY LYNNE) a Dusty Springfield tribute
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 | Mockingbird by Allison Moorer
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.39 ALLISON MOORER)
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 | Warpaint by The Black Crowes
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.92 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: $13.99 / Used from: $8.95 TIFT MERRITT)
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 | Sticks and Stones by moe.
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 MOE) solid new set from the jam-band stalwarts
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 | Asking for Flowers by Kathleen Edwards
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.00 KATHLEEN EDWARDS)
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 | Vagabonds by Gary Louris
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.99 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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 | Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.98 MUDCRUTCH) Tom Petty with a more countrified sound on this one with Campbell, Tench & some old friends
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 | Same Old Man by John Hiatt
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $10.29 JOHN HIATT)
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 | Moment Of Forever by Willie Nelson
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.00 WILLIE NELSON)
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 | Odelay by Beck
Buy new: $21.97 / Used from: $14.95 BECK -- 1996) Odelay Deluxe, with lots of stuff in addition to the great original 1996 album.
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 | Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 by The Byrds
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.95 THE BYRDS -- 1971) great live set by the late-period Byrds, a country-rock quartet
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