Zap Mama - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Rita Houston

Influences from Zaire to Belgium and the U.S. find a common place in the music of Zap Mama, and the new album 'Supermoon'...

Rita Houston and Simple Kid

Simple Kid - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Rita Houston
After getting tied up in the business of music, Ireland's Simple Kid found his way back to the fun. '2' is the latest...
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Michelle Shocked - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Claudia Marshall
When Michelle Shocked took the stage at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2003, a gospel band and choir came along with...

Nellie McKay - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Claudia Marshall

After two double-discs, New York City's Nellie McKay returns with the 9-song 'Obligatory Villagers.' The CD is released on...

John Wesley Harding (Wesley Stace) - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Vin Scelsa
The new novel 'By, George' finds Wesley Stace returning to his author gig with a ventriloquist dummy in tow, but in a recent...
Lee Rocker with Don McGee

Lee Rocker - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Don McGee
Former Stray Cats bassist Lee Rocker travels in new musical directions thanks to the flexibility of a solo career, but those...
Darren DeVivo with Justin Currie

Justin Currie - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Darren DeVivo
Scotland's Justin Currie is the voice and songwriter behind Del Amitri's two decades of jangly pop tunes, but he tones...

Jennifer Warnes - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Rita Houston
With 1987's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' singer Jennifer Warnes took on the catalog of Leonard Cohen, and the nine reinterpreted...

Mary Gauthier - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|John Platt
Mary Gauthier even earned a fan in Bob Dylan with her 2005 album 'Mercy Now,' and now returns to her sparse, Southern gothic...

T. Rex tribute - Words and Music - 2007

June 28, 2011|Darren DeVivo
With Joe Hurley and Edward Rogers at the helm, a cast of life-long T. Rex fans took the stage in September '07 for '20th...