Month: March 2006

Been sitting around tonight after dinner, drinking newcastle’s, and listening to some old records with friends. Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys came on the changer, and as always, I found myself grinning. […]

I got turned on to The Glass Family in Austin at SXSW through the Brokedown folk. There album is out on I Eat Records , and is getting some good press today on a couple of music […]

photo credit ( www.luckymadison.com )Last night, The National , exceeded my expectations playing their show at The Troubadour — and I had pretty lofty expectations. Opener, Talkdemonic, were fantastic as well in a Live […]

To be honest, if I had spent more time with Alligator last year before making the “‘best of ’05” list, chances are, ol’ Sufjan might have had a real run for his […]

If you are into funk/soul/jazz Robert Walter’s 20th Congress is an act to see Live if at all possible. Former Greyboy Allstar , Robert Walter, continued on his West coast boogaloo mission and expanded on it […]

The unreleased album Tall is the holy grail for Black Crowes fans. It is reported to exist, but that is all. If you ever had a doubt about The Black Crowes […]

One of the artists I really hoped to catch while in Austin at SXSW was Kris Kristofferson. The man embodies the country-music-outlaw-scoundrel-legend mythos, and I wanted to latch on to […]

Quickly edging in as one of my top albums of 2006, Centro-matic’s Fort Recovery keeps all the promises made by their (and Will Johnson’s) lofty back-catalog over the years. Others have noticed […]

If you’re a serious Black Crowes fan you probably already own this. The first thing you should know about Foamfoot is that it is a cover band, a damn fine cover […]

Drunkard favorite, and Country music visionary, Buck Owens passed away yesterday, Saturday March 25th 2006. Head over to Yerblog for some tunes and pay tribute to old Buck.———-Amazon: The Buck […]

Resident 5’er (Scott McCaughey) is back with a whole slew of guests on this seventh Minus 5 album . Check it: Kelly Hogan, Peter Buck, Colin Melloy, John Wesley Harding, the Wilco crew, Sean […]

Earlier this week Josh Rouse released his seventh album, Subsitulo , recorded with a small group of friends this past year in his adopted home of Spain. Check out this track below […]

Honky Tonk. Americana. Alt.Country. Any and/or all three of those terms could be used to define Atlanta’s National Grain . Mining a similiar vein of Drunkard favorites, the now defunct Star Room […]