Required Listening: Get Tough
In 1998, I moved away to attend college but found my new home as lacking in culture and kicks as the whistle-stop I had…
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Required Listening: The Days of Wine and Roses
A mention of Los Angeles in the 1980s might conjure images of The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, but the city…
Required Listening: Philosophy of the World
In the late 1960s, three teenage sisters– Betty, Helen, and Dorothy Wiggins– each took up an instrument, and under the “guidance” of their father,…
Required Listening: Dirty Dancing
“The Dirty Dancing soundtrack?” I can hear the record needles scratch, highball glasses shatter, and partygoers and readers alike demand refunds… But hear me…
100.9 The Creek’s Top 20 Americana Albums & EPs of 2020
Say what you will about 2020 (and you can say a lot), but the music has been spectacular. The staff at 100.9 The Creek…
The X Alternative Albums of the Year
Wow, what a year 2020 has been! Pandemics, social unrest, lockdowns, and crazy political pageantry… It’s almost like an episode of The X Files!…
Music Makes the Best Gift: 2020 Box Sets & Reissues
For all the things that went horribly wrong in 2020, it was a good year for deluxe box sets and album reissues! Here are…
Review: GRAYSON CAPPS South Front Street: A Retrospective 1997-2019
South Front Street brings together a career-spanning collection of Grayson Capps songs that have been curated and re-tuned by GRAMMY award winner Trina Shoemaker,…
Review: Ghosts of West Virginia
I almost passed on this one. To tell you the truth, I really stopped listening to Steve Earle after Washington Square Serenade (2007). It…