Album of the Week
Ever been on a Hellbound Train? It's the ride that lulls you like a Quaalude with a vodka back. You don't know where you're goin' but it feels mighty fine, all liquid and loose. The trip starts off like a joy ride. Then, though you're still feelin' pretty damn good, you find yourself knee walkin' to your car, headed to the county jail with a sheriff who only looks at your tits or in the bed of a trouble man.
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There are echoes of other singers in Kasey Anderson's raspy, twangy voice--most obviously Steve Earle and Chris Knight--but Anderson’s sandpaper drawl is lower, younger and wearier.
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If there was ever any doubt that longtime folkie misfit Peter Stampfel has a rock ‘n’ roll heart, this album should dispel it once and for all.
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Bobby Charles, who died in January at the age of 71, cruised just underneath the radar of the nation’s consciousness for more than half a century.
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The eight musicians who make up the current lineup of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band have a tough road to plow.
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Ain't No Grave is a funeral for fans of Johnny Cash. It's not the kind of service in which a minister prays for salvation, mentioning the high points of a life along the way.
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A recent study on religion in America shows that there has been a fairly dramatic spike in non-believers over the past ten years.
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Ray Charles once told me that the secret to his music was this: If his band was rock-steady, he could do whatever and go wherever he wanted.
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On Vampire Weekend’s second album, Contra, the New York Ivy Leaguers shed the skin of Graceland yet retain the grace of that album’s creator, Paul Simon.
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I can’t think of another album that sounds so warm on its surface yet so dark at its core.
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Let's hear it for the band! Though live albums are often given short shrift as afterthoughts, career stopgaps or greatest-hits releases with applause...
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SHELF LIFE
