Country CDs

2011 is the centenary of Robert Johnson's birth and in addition it was in 1941 that Muddy Waters first recorded on Stovall's Cotton Plantation in Mississippi. This excellent 2CD compilation traces the impact and influence of the blues on popular music. '100 Years of the Blues' is supported by a r...

Up Jumped The Devil features a full hour of devilish classics, with tales of temptation, nightmare, possession & pure devilish fun, told via a rich & wonderful journey through 3 decades of American popular music.Yet another outstanding Viper compilation, which includes music from such legend...

Joel Rafael is an award winning internationally recognized songwriter from north San Diego County, California. His first release on Jackson Browne's Inside Recordings label combines two albums worth of Woody Guthrie songs, including 5 previously unpublished lyrics to which Joel has provided music. ...

North Carolina–based Carolina Chocolate Drops follow up their Grammy Award–winning 2010 album, GENUINE NEGRO JIG, with their third full length album, LEAVING EDEN, set for release on March 5. The group returns with a record of original compositions, covers, and traditional songs produced by Budd...

In 2008, Old Crow Medicine Show released their third Nettwerk album called Tennessee Pusher. Produced by the legendary Don Was (Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones), the album features the first single "Caroline" along with 11 other Old Crow originals and an American standard calle...

This May marks the 100th birthday of Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who, according to legend, sold his soul down at the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in a midnight bargain that has haunted the music world for three quarters of a century. The deal brought forth Johnson&rsqu...

No Better Than This features thirteen all new original songs and was produced by T Bone Burnett , who collaborated with John Mellencamp on the much-lauded Life Death Love and Freedom. The album was recorded on vintage equipment – a 55 year-old Ampex tape recorder with just one microphone &n...

There aren’t a lot or Warped Tour vets who can claim proficiency in the use of washboards, bottleneck slides and five gallon buckets. Most didn’t spend their teens playing along to Charlie Patton and Bukka White albums, and just about none of them are fronted by a commissioned member of ...

Bringing together a multinational assemblage of musicians whose primary work has been influenced by traditional Irish folk, country, and blues, France‐based Moriarty also took a page from punk rock, in that all members use the surname "Moriarty" as a performance name (à la the Ramon...

Holly and Lawyer Dave are back with their third album together as Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs. “Medicine County” was written and recorded in a farmhouse just outside Athens in Georgia (Holly is now living in Georgia) and as Holly says it’s “peppier” th...

Legend has it Frank Fairfield was discovered busking around the streets of L.A with his bike and old grammaphone player. After being asked to open for Fleet Foxes in 2007, the indie world fell in love with Fairfield who was then invited back to headline alongside the Foxes in 2008. Returning in 2...