Freak Mountain Ramblers, Freak Mountain Ramblers III (Woodrose Records)

They don’t make hippie folk-rock like this no more. Now on their third album, the Freak Mountain Ramblers have basically become a sort of Traveling Wilburys for Holy Modal Rounder […]

Van and Grace, The Original 1960s Recordings (CSP Records)

There’s a bit of a debate over who actually “invented” swamp pop, and like the similar unresolved debate about rock ‘n’ roll, there are no easy answers. Like most musical […]

Urban Legends: Positive Papa Doc

Urban Legends: Positive Papa Doc

Tommy Castro, Jimmy Hall, Lloyd Jones, Triple Trouble (Telarc)

Atomic Bitch, What’s Inside (Top and Bottom Records)

Various Artists, Live at the W.C. Handy Blues Awards: Volume One (Tone-Cool)

James Blood Ulmer, No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (Hyena)

Melissa Sigler, Eddie Kirkland, Willie Foster, Billy F. Otis, Four Aces (Wild Oats)

Various Artists, Blues in the Mississippi Night (Rounder)

Various Artists, Exile on Blues Street (Telarc)