Barbara Mandrell - Standing Room Only Audio CD

The Dickel Brothers are in love with old-time music, specifically the string band era. It's not only there in the music, but even the album cover, which replicates the design of the old Country label in almost every detail. It's interesting that their album should appear on Empty, which has a reputation for punk albums -- but then again, their music and presentation have all the forthrightness and attitude of punk, and let you see that there's really nothing new under the sun. With fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass, and untrained voices, they attack old songs like the Carter Family's "Rambling Boy" or Charlie Poole's "The Highway Man" (an adaptation of "Gallows Pole") with ...

More twang for your buck! "The Honeymoon's Over" is about cheatin', another of country music's building blocks. He's in good voice here, and with all the sidemen happily in their proper places, you can feel his pain. "Wasted" is equally enjoyable, ...

2009 live archive release from the Jazz pianist containing two rare performances recorded in Northern Europe. The initial three tunes, appearing here on CD for the first time, were recorded during an informal visit to the house of Finnish ...

Engineers: Neil Kunen, Bert Drake, Mickey Estrada. The Jive Aces: Ian Clarkson (vocals, trumpet); John Fordham (tenor & baritone saxophones); Alex Douglas (trombone); Vince Hurley (piano); Ken Smith (upright bass); Peter "Bilky" Howell (drums). Additional personnel: Neil Kunen, Jim Pearson (guitar); ...

Southern Invasion compiles a number of tracks by obscure and up-and-coming Southern rappers, and as such there's a heavy Master P influence on a lot of this material. Gangsta Pat is probably the biggest name here, and there are ...

Standing Room Only album The Cash Brothers are Andrew and Peter, and they're in the strange position of being a Canadian alt-country supergroup while at the same time most people can't place either of them. Andrew Cash released a string of widely released ...

Standing Room Only songs Kenny Drew, one of the top young bop-oriented pianists to emerge in the 1950s, would not make his one official Blue Note recording as a leader until 1960, but this set (originally released by Pacific Jazz) has been reissued ...