Slippin’ & Slidin’ Adventures in Mutations By Sandy Carter This month’s reviews feature artists who make music that owes little or no…
Ever since the late 1960s, when the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Bob Dylan started making the lonesome moan of…
Because blues is such a heavily male dominated musical genre, it’s often forgotten that the first popular blues recording stars were…
Although the Bay Area-based Conjunto Cspedes is now being recognized as one of the most exciting Afro-Cuban ensembles in the country,…
Ā In the last decade the music industry has gradually discovered the music of American Indians. As a result, at least a…
Our songs are like you and me, the product of a long human chain… —Pete Seeger Ever since the radical tradition…
lap slide phenom Kelly Joe Phelps, Brown etches a multi-faceted portrait of life in the rural Midwest. Like Dylan, Brown sees and…
of albums on his own Red House label, The Iowa Waltz (1983) and 44 & 66 (1984), which eventually led to frequent…
After decades of steady expansion the record industry has finally bottomed out. With record sales at $12.3 billion in 1995, $12.5…
impossible to recall that these were years in which all of society’s fundamental relations of power were being questioned and assaulted. Not…
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