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Jason & the Scorchers – Halcyon Times (Courageous Chicken/NashVegas Flash)
15 March 2010Fourteen years after their last studio album, Nashville’s JASON & THE SCORCHERS makes an unexpected return.
Ketchup Pt. 4
3 February 2010More quick takes on albums worthy of being more than just units in a discard pile.
Rank and File - Sundown (Slash)
23 January 2010“Lucky Day” belongs in the same canon as the very best of HANK WILLIAMS or MERLE HAGGARD.
The Gilded Palace of Sin – You break our hearts, we’ll tear yours out (Central Control)
10 January 2010Love TOM WAITS, NICK CAVE and JIM WHITE? Then THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN is your new favorite band.
Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce – Coldwater (self-released)
25 November 2009The eight song album (five originals, three covers) is, to my ears, her strongest release yet.
Chuck Prophet – ¡Let Freedom Ring! ((((bellesound)))/Mummyhead/Yep Roc)
17 November 2009¡Let Freedom Ring! is his most stripped-down record in several years.
Beat Circus – Boy From Black Mountain (Cuneiform)
16 September 2009At once unique and familiar, Beat Circus take American music to exotic places that feel strangely like its roots.
Michael Dean Damron – Father’s Day (In Music We Trust)
14 July 2009Damron’s third record Father’s Day is full of characters on the losing end of life.
Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Ruth St.)
30 June 2009Murdering Oscar shows Hood as having too many good songs to be confined to one project.
The Minus 5 – Killingsworth/The Young Fresh Fellows – I Think This Is (Yep Roc)
26 June 2009Will SCOTT MCCAUGHEY ever get his just due as a songwriter and record-maker?
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of February 7
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The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (Pure Groove U.K.)
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The Joy Formidable – First You Have to Get Mad limited edition live LP (Pure Groove U.K.)
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Rogue Wave – Permalight (Brushfire)
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Sloan – Hit & Run digital EP (Murder)
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Catherine Wheel – Ferment (Cherry Red U.K.)
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Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
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Mission of Burma – The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador)
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Visqueen – Message to Garcia (Local 638)
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For Against – Never Been (Words on Music)
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The Dimes – The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry (Pet Marmoset)