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Author: Alan Scherstuhl
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  1. Critic's Choice

    Martin Sexton

    Saturday, April 17, at the Beaumont Club.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: April 15, 2004

    There's folky, and then there's Martin Sexton, who, unlike most solo, acoustic-playing honkies, isn't hamstrung by notions of ascetic purity. Sure, he's plenty sensitive, but...

  2. Hear & Now

    James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards

    Live in Aught-Three (Compadre)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: April 1, 2004

    McMurtry's dispatches from the world where the Wal-Marts meet the meth labs have never gone down easy. He's a hell of a writer, but he sings the way Ashcroft probably hides the...

  3. Critic's Choice

    Brant Bjork and the Brothers

    Wednesday, March 24, at the Hurricane.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: March 18, 2004

    Former Kyuss drummer Brant Bjork is kind of a dilettante, but at least he's dedicated to it: He left Queens of the Stone Age to continue doing his own thing, which includes ax...

  4. Hear & Now

    Flatlanders

    Wheels of Fortune (New West Records)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: March 18, 2004

    Early pressings of this album, the latest attempt to determine just what the hell the Flatlanders are, come packaged with bonus live tracks from 1972 -- right about the time...

  5. Hear & Now

    The Casual Dots

    The Casual Dots (Kill Rock Stars)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: March 11, 2004

    It's early, but I'm nominating this album as 2004's feel-bad dorm-sex debut. The Dots come on hot and heavy, sounding just like what you'd expect from a no-bass garage trio...

  6. Hear & Now

    Greg Trooper / Reckless Kelly

    Floating/ Under the Table & Above the Sun (Sugar Hill)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: February 26, 2004

    Your niche might be my rut, so when I report that neither of these discs clangs my bells, I don't mean to dissuade those inclined toward this strain of coffeehouse country....

  7. Hear & Now

    Al Green

    I Can't Stop (Blue Note)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: February 19, 2004

    The title's a misnomer. The once-prolific hero trickles instead of floods these days, and his insistence that he is compelled toward the godless songcraft that made him a star...

  8. Hear & Now

    The Down Trunks

    Rock Unincorporated (Independent)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: February 12, 2004

    Yeah, the name's a spoonerism of town drunks. But we can forgive that. The music hits a pleasant, boozy stumble now and then, but these KC boys aren't nearly as sloppy or as...

  9. Hear & Now

    Dolly Parton

    The Ultimate Dolly Parton (RCA Nashville)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 15, 2004

    Here she comes again, that friend you love whom the world loves, too. But the world loves the her she became, not the her from way back when, and it's heartbreaking, in a way,...

  10. Hear & Now

    J-Live

    Always Has Been/Always Will Be (Fatbeats)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 8, 2004

    Fourteen tracks split over two discs and sold separately at ten bucks a pop is a far cry from the overstuffed generosity of J-Live's The Best Part and All of the Above. But...

  11. Hear & Now

    Avant

    Private Room (Geffen)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 25, 2003

    Avant's mission: to boldly plow ladies like nobody's plowed them before. His MO: 62 minutes of slow-burn come-on. At first spin, it's indistinguishable from any other...

  12. Interview

    Secret Santanas

    Holidazed and confused? Consider this your stairway to shopping heaven.

    By Robert Bishop, Ray Cummings, Nathan Dinsdale, Geoff Harkness, Gina Kaufmann, Ali Ryan and Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 18, 2003

    OK, Nancy. It's less than a week until D day, and you still haven't twitched a butt muscle to find the perfect gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or [INSERT YOUR HOLIDAY...

  13. Critic's Choice

    Thank God for Astronauts

    Thursday, December 18, at the Bottleneck.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 18, 2003

    Yeah, it's indie, it has a cute name and its guitars chime more than they crunch. And the group shares a hometown with Dressy Bessy and Apples in Stereo. But being pop --...

  14. Hear & Now

    ZZ Top

    Mescalero (RCA)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 27, 2003

    ZZ Top fans have called Mescalero a return to form after 1999's dire XXX. But what else could it be, really, when form is all the Top has ever had? The same pounding...

  15. Critic's Choice

    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

    Sunday, November 23, at the Bottleneck.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 20, 2003

    Lord, this boy's good. Ted Leo's quick, muscular guitar-pop is just the kind of rock-saving sound my younger self used to believe was bound to be huge any day now. It isn't, of...

  16. Hear & Now

    Various Artists

    Box of the Blues (Rounder)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 13, 2003

    Unburdened by affiliation with PBS or Martin Scorsese or any fussy authoritativeness, this four-disc comp featuring a variety of Rounder artists is breezy fun and almost...

  17. Critic's Choice

    Grand Champeen

    Wednesday, November 12, at Davey's Uptown, and Friday, November 14 at Replay Lounge.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 6, 2003

    Kids today don't know it, but there was a time when Soul Asylum wasn't a synonym for Tom Petty. When Paul Westerberg plugged in and it mattered. When rock bashed out by...

  18. Hear & Now

    Steve Earle

    Just an American Boy: The Audio Documentary (Artemis)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 6, 2003

    Songs you like played slower. And that's when you're lucky. For the first half-hour, it's songs you half-recall from Jerusalem, ground through with all the urgent fire your...

  19. Hear & Now

    Jimmy Fortune

    When One Door Closes (Audium)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: November 6, 2003

    What has Jimmy Fortune, the former Statler Brother responsible for "Elizabeth" and "More Than a Name on a Wall," been up to since the Statlers retired in 1999? Why, rerecording...

  20. Hear & Now

    Joss Stone

    The Soul Sessions (S-Curve)

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: October 23, 2003

    The question isn't whether this works. It doesn't. There's promise, and the band is good, but the feel is NPR at the Apollo, and Stone's showy, half-trained vocals are pumped...

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