Compact Capsules for 12/02/05 by Dan Ferguson Various Artists For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records Bloodshot Records BS-112 The idea for Bloodshot Records was hatched back in the early 1990s over a bunch of beers between …
Compact Capsules for 11/25/05 by Dan Ferguson For Thanksgiving 2005, Compact Capsules gives thanks to the fact that elder statesmen and women like Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, and Bettye LaVette are still getting it done. Each artist has a new …
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Compact Capsules for 11/18/05 by Dan Ferguson Call them the original Partridge Family. In fact, if it wasn’t for The Cowsills there likely would not have been any Partridge Family. During the latter half of the 1960s, The Cowsills were …
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Compact Capsules for 11/11/05 by Dan Ferguson Reissue collections and compilations are once again in the Compact Capsules spotlight this week. We begin with a look at two superb collections from the late king couple of country music, Johnny and …
Compact Capsules for 11/04/05 by Dan Ferguson A couple of performing acts with Providence connections set the stage for this week’s Compact Capsules. First up is the debut from Get Him Eat Him. The Providence-based combo arose out of the …
Compact Capsules for 10/28/05 by Dan Ferguson Milwaukee, Wisconsin is not usually a city one thinks of when it comes to record labels and music, but the Midwest metropolis is home to a label that is quietly making its mark …
Compact Capsules for 10/21/05 by Dan Ferguson New releases from a couple of the best of the contemporary troubadours of the Texas singer/songwriter set, that being James McMurtry and Eliza Gilkyson, lead the Compact Capsules charge this week. They share …
When it comes to guitar playing of the rock and roll variety, six-stringer extraordinaire Deke Dickerson has few rivals. The latest album from Dickerson, who brings his band to the very cool Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River …
Waco Brothers Freedom and Weep Bloodshot BS-119 A two-by-four to the ears, in a very righteous and oft-times pugnacious rock ‘n’ roll kind of way, is the manner in which the music of the Windy City-based Waco Brothers usually strikes. …
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This week’s Compact Capsules zeroes in on four recent releases from Oakland-based HighTone Records. The label dubs this latest flurry of recordings “Big Noise from Springfield, Missouri” seeing that the four acts represented each makes its music out of that …
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