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…
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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…
Review: Good Souls Better Angels
Like Memphis Minnie before her, Lucinda Williams is tired of your shit– and it doesn’t take a rocket doctor to figure out what’s got…
Review: Hold My Beer Vol. 2
I confess that I’ve only been on the Randy Rogers bandwagon since last year’s Hellbent and that up until this point, I’ve only been…
Crucial Cinema: Once Upon a Time in the West
In the 1960s, Sergio Leone fired magic bullets across international cinema with his trilogy of films starring a young Clint Eastwood as the Man…