Americana Archive
21 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… By 1993, as the first signing of the reactivated Sun Records, Jason D. Williams released Wild. Sessions for that disc took place in the storied studio […]
20 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part One)
Though his in-the-grand-tradition bio sheet asserts that Jason D. Williams first played a piano at age three, when I ask him about it, he concedes that his serious interest in […]
29 Jul 2014
Album Review: NRBQ — Brass Tacks
NRBQ are one of America’s great musical treasures. Though they’ve never enjoyed the sort of commercial success of, say, a Creedence Clearwater Revival or The Band, the catalog of this […]
24 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Four
I’m bound and determined to reduce the contents of my in-box to manageable levels, so this week I’ll be covering 25 albums, each adhering to a 100-word limit. Don’t mistake […]
18 Jul 2014
Album Review: Eric Clapton – Unplugged (CD+DVD)
Here’s a slightly unusual candidate for reissue: Eric Clapton‘s 1992 Unplugged album. To my knowledge, this massively commercially successful album has never gone out of print, which begs the question: […]
25 Apr 2014
Album Review: Jimbo Mathus — Dark Night of the Soul
I can make no legitimate claim to an ability to define Americana. Like the former chief justice said about another art form, I know it when I, um, hear it. […]
18 Mar 2014
Album Review: Various — The Del Shannon Tribute: Songwriter Vol. 1
The history of rock’n’roll is littered with artists who — for one reason or another – never quite got their due. Del Shannon is on that list. Best known as […]
12 Mar 2014
Album Review: Los Lobos — Sí Se Puede
It was eight long years ago that I first reviewed a Los Lobos album, a then-new best-of compilation called Wolf Tracks. And I had added some of their music to […]
04 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: Reissues
Those CDs continue to pile up here at Musoscribe World Headquarters. And even after I cull the unsolicited or semi-solicited ones that don’t make the cut for coverage, I still […]
12 Feb 2014
Album Reviews: Camper Van Beethoven — Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Key Lime Pie
You know that marketing term “early adopter?” Those are the people who bought CD players in 1984. They bought Blu-Ray players before there were any Blu-Ray discs available. And they […]