Tag: country

Poco

Live at Columbia Studios, Hollywood 9/30/71

Collectors’ Choice Music Live

Paul Cotton’s recent departure from Poco makes this an unintentional tribute to the “wide open space cowboy,” and it couldn’t have been better if it was planned.

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various artists

Bloody War — Songs: 1924-1939

Tompkins Square

This collection of original 78 rpm recordings (the phonograph needle can be heard dropping at the start of each) presents performances captured between 1924 and 1939 of songs originating from the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and World War I.

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The Stone Foxes

Bears & Bulls

self-released

San Francisco-based blues rock quartet The Stone Foxes aren’t out to please the masses — thankfully. They’re doing their own thing, taking pointers from groups like Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Faces, Black Crowes and North Mississippi Allstars, mixing it all together, kneading it, rolling it out and throwing it in the oven to see what happens.

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The Blue Shadows

On the Floor of Heaven

Bumstead

Discovering the Blue Shadows is like stumbling upon buried treasure. How could it be that a roots-rock band this good put out two fantastic albums, in 1993 and 1995, and failed to show up on most people’s radar?

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30db

One Man Show

SCI Fidelity

There’s been no shortage of jam bands in the post-Grateful Dead era: Blues Traveler, Phish, moe., String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee and Widespread Panic, as well as countless “newgrass” groups including Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band and Blueground Undergrass.

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