“I went out in the open field/Black snake bit me on the heel, I’ve stood around and done my best/Shoved my head in a...
The Appalachian Sounds of Fonotone Records
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Dispatches
Dust-To-Digital’s Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890-1950
Dust To Digital’s handsome book called Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music and Photography...
The Black Crowes: Before The Frost…Until The Freeze
“Good Morning Captain” stands as a classic Crowes number—arguably one of their best–complete with soulful-sounding slide, banjo, barroom piano and a nifty melody that embodies rock and roll at it’s finest.
Widespread Panic Archives Release #3: Huntsville, AL.
By James Calemine On April 3, 1996, Widespread Panic performed at the Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville, Alabama....
Levon Helm: Electric Dirt
By James Calemine As a follow up to Levon Helm’s award-winning Dirt Farmer, Electric Dirt represents a looser release...
Patterson Hood’s Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar By James Calemine A sharp guitar riff opens Murdering Oscar on the title track, and...
Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
By James Calemine Bob Dylan produced Together Through Life, his 33rd studio album. Dylan employs Tony Garnier on bass,...
Neil Young: Fork In the Road
These songs warn us all…we’re at a fork in the road.
Widespread Panic Archive Series #2 Valdosta 1989
Volume Two of the mighty Widespread Panic’s Archive Series serves as testimony to the band’s power as an original...
Tom Petty’s Musical Gainesville Gang: Mudcrutch
Mudcrutch broke up fifty years ago. The Gainesville, Florida, band became local heroes by hosting a series of...
Booker T & The MGs: McLemore Avenue
By James Calemine Recorded in January 1970, McLemore Avenue was the great Memphis group Booker T & The MGs tribute...
Ben Nichols: The Last Pale Light in the West
James Calemine Based on the Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian, Ben Nichols’ solo album--The Last Pale Light in the...