Country / Blues

Country, Blue Grass, Blues, etc.

  • Randy Sharp: First in Line Randy Sharp: First in Line

    I like country music. Those sad songs that end with heartbreak, a sixer of Budweiser on the lap, and mans best friend in the passenger seat. I’ve sang “On the Road Again” so many times in my head and outloud during a trip that I can sing most of the song word for word. Like […]

  • Elizabeth Cotten – Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar Elizabeth Cotten – Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar

    This will make you toss out your yawnfest Folkways LPs of bug sounds and jugbands or whatever and force you to rethink your intentions as a record collector. Miss Cotten is the real Folkways deal and this is probably one of the best records they ever put out (up there with the Anthologies of American […]

  • Homestead Act: Gospel Snake Homestead Act: Gospel Snake

    Writing about these largely unknown, home-made records can be tough. Take this private press hipster bluegrass lp here… which is particularly a head scratcher. If the cover (which as always is scant on vital info) is to be believed, these kids were from TN, and this record was released in “AD 1972″.

  • Perry L. Jackson: The Old Deer Hunter Perry L. Jackson: The Old Deer Hunter

    9.7 out of 10 people would probably find it completely unlistenable, but in 10 years of collecting records this is perhaps the most fascinating lp I’ve found.

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