Monthly Archives: April 2002
The Gourds – Shinebox
I have a new favorite band. They're called the Gourds. Imagine a countrified fire-breathing mandolin-driven version of Los Lobos and you have...
The Byrds – Live at the Fillmore February 1969, (untitled)
It's unfortunate that Roger McGuin insisted on retaining The Byrds name even after the other founding members had left the group. The "new"...
Fred McDowell – The First Recordings, Steakbone Slide Guitar, Leve
These three CDs of Mississippi Fred McDowell all show different sides of the great Delta bluesman.
Rounder's The First Recordings were recorded by famed musicologist...