Oliver Future
Oliver Future maybe may be the hardest-working unsigned band around. They’ve committed themselves to the stage, the road, and the studio as ferociously as...
Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...
The Broken West
Somewhere in the atom-splitting genre distinctions that music critics like to confer, it got lost that pop can be punk and punk can be...
John Denver
John Denver was a consistently — some would say mercilessly — sweet and upbeat-sounding performer, even on his sad songs.
The best of his hits...
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock is probably the most unassuming hero in modern rock, an idea he wouldn’t scoff at but would more than...
Chris Knight
Songs pour from Chris Knight like good whiskey from a bottle. He’s an independent-spirited chronicler of existential life in American small towns where there’s...
Son Volt
With anger over the war in Iraq escalating and next year’s presidential election looming, there seems to be a lot of politically charged music...
Dolly Parton
One of a dozen children from a poor family in rural eastern Tennessee, Dolly Parton left for Nashville the day after she graduated from...
Radiant
It’s not so rare that a band claims to have formed out of inspiration from a single album as it is unusually honest. Most...
Rickie Lee Jones
For her first new collection of original material in almost four years, the quixotic melody-making virtuoso Rickie Lee Jones doesn’t need a personal savior...
