Roots (Country, Folk, Americana)

Artist Karen Dalton
Title Green Rocky Road
Label megaphone
Another chapter in the ever-evolving story of Karen Dalton. These are home recordings, taped by Joe Loop, as was the double live album ’Cotton Eyed Joe’ released last year. And now, in 2008, we present the second instalment of ’The Loop Tapes’, ’Green Rocky Road’, an album consisting of recordings made by Karen herself at her Boulder home on reel-to-reel. It sounds like the album Dalton would have released in 1963 had she been given the opportunity then.

Artist Karen Dalton
Title In My Own Time
Label Light in The Attic
Dalton has seen something of a revival thanks to some credit and praise from the likes of Bob Dylan and Nick Cave. Among the legendary singer-songwriters of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, the late Karen Dalton was the interpreter and song-stylist of choice (in fact, Dylan himself rated Dalton as his favorite of the bunch). While she never achieved the kind of fame that her cohorts did, her influence was widely felt. One can hear her throaty, slow-burning take on country-blues singing in the voices of Lucinda Williams and other female alt-country singers. This 1971 release was only one of two proper albums she made in her lifetime.

Remastered from the Original Tapes
* CD includes 32pg Deluxe Booklet
* Exclusive liner notes from Lenny Kaye, Nick Cave, and Devendra Banhart
* Deluxe limited edition LP includes 180 gram vinyl, hand numbered old school tip-on jacket, full liner notes, and bonus 7" single featuring "Something On Your Mind" and "Katie Cruel" (alternate mix). Limited to 1,000 copies.

Artist Dead Cowboys
Title Twin Evil Stars
Label The Boutique Label
1. Twin Evil Stars
2. Black Easter
3. Violet City
4. The Silent Type
5. Understand
6. Changing Trains
7. Biting The Ground
8. Relentless
9. A Good Car
10. New Neighbour
11. Jewels
12. No Mystery / Breathe Pure White Light
13. Cowboy Mouth
14. Kill The Dream
15. Ladder To The Sun
16. Good Boys Stay Poor Boys (Bad Boys Go To Jail)
17. Patterns
18. Drowning Weed
19. Changing Trains (Lefty Mix)

Artist Deadstring Brothers
Title Sao Paulo
Label Bloodshot

Artist Decemberists
Title Crane Wife
Label Rough Trade

Artist Demore Brothers
Title Freight Train Boogie
Label Ace
  1. Blues Stay Away From Me
  2. Freight Train Boogie
  3. Trouble Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues
  4. Boogie Woogie Baby
  5. Rounder’s Blues
  6. Mobile Boogie
  7. Used Car Blues
  8. Pan American Boogie
  9. Field Hand Man
10. Brown’s Ferry Blues
11. Peach Tree Street Boogie
12. Blues You Never Lose
13. Steamboat Bill Boogie
14. Muddy Water
15. Sand Mountain Blues
16. Hillbilly Boogie
17. You Can’t Do Wrong & Get By
18. Kentucky Mountain
19. Weary Day
20. Take It To The Captain  

Artist Sandy Denny
Title Boxful of Treasures 5CD Set
Label Fledgling
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Artist DEVON SPROULE
Title I Love You, Go Easy
Label Tin Angel
Sproule’s songs span the genre spectrum: "Now’s the Time" is a loose Neil-Youngish twanger made utterly original by the introduction of Ryan Driver’s searing analog synth. "If I Can Do This (I Can Do Anything)" is the floating, flouting mantra of the record. Doug Tielli’s staccato trumpet punctuates the jazz-influenced, call-and-response of "Monk / Monkey." And the title track, "I Love You, Go Easy," (easily Sproule’s finest vocal performance of her career) takes a slow walk with some of the most thoughtful piano voicings in recent pop memory.

Artist Devotchka
Title A Mad And Faithful Telling
Label Anti

Artist DEVOTCHKA
Title 100 Lovers
Label

Artist Alela Diane
Title To Be Still
Label names

The follow up to 2007’s spectacuar ’Pirate’s Gospel’. As well as a bunch of new recordings there are also 4 tracks from the (now deleted) ’Songs Whistled Through White Teeth’ 10" including the breathtaking ’Tatted Lace’.

Artist Dillard and Clark
Title The Fantastic Expedition Of / Through The Morning
Label A&M

Artist Cara Dillon
Title After The Morning
Label Rough Trade
 1. Never In A Million Years
 2. I Wish You Well
 3. Here’s A Health
 4. Brockagh Braes
 5. Garden Valley
 6. October Winds
 7. Bold Jamie
 8. The Streets Of Derry
 9. This Time
10. The Snows They Melt The Soonest
11. Walls
12. Grace

Artist Dixie Chicks
Title Taking the Long Way
Label Sony BMG

Artist Dixie Chicks
Title Wide Open Spaces
Label Sony

Artist Nick Drake
Title A Treasury
Label Island
 1. Introduction
 2. Hazey Jane II
 3. River Man
 4. Cello Song
 5. Hazey Jane I
 6. Pink Moon
 7. Poor Boy
 8. Magic
 9. Place To Be
10. Northern Sky 
11. Road
12. Fruit Tree
13. Black Eyed Dog
14. Way To Blue
15. From The Morning

Artist Nick Drake
Title Bryter Layter
Label Island
  1. Introduction
  2. Hazey Jane II
  3. At The Chime Of A City Clock
  4. One Of These Things First
  5. Hazey Jane I
  6. Bryter Layter
  7. Fly
  8. Poor Boy
  9. Northern Sky
10. Sunday

Artist Nick Drake
Title Made to Love Magic
Label Island
  1. Rider On The Wheel
  2. Magic
  3. River Man
  4. Joey
  5. Thoughts Of Mary Jane
  6. Mayfair
  7. Hanging On A Star
  8. Three Hours
  9. Clothes Of Sand
10. Voices
11. Time Of No Reply
12. Black Eyed Dog
13. Tow The Line

Artist Drive By Truckers
Title A Blessing And A Curse
Label New West Records

Artist Drive By Truckers
Title Brighter Than Creations Dark
Label New West

Artist Drive by Truckers
Title Decoration Day
Label NEWWEST
  1. The Deeper In
  2. Sink Hole
  3. Hell No, I Ain’t Happy 
  4. Marry Me
  5. My Sweet Annette
  6. Outfit 
  7. Heathens 
  8. Sounds Better In The Song
  9. (Something’s Got To) Give Pretty Soon
10. Your Daddy Hates Me
11. Careless
12. When The Pin Hits The Shell
13. Do It Yourself
14. Decoration Day
15. Loaded Gun In The Closet

Artist Drive by Truckers
Title Gangstabilly
Label NEWWEST
  1. Wife Beater
  2. Demonic Possession
  3. The Tough Sell
  4. The Living Bubba
  5. Late For Church
  6. Panties In Your Purse
  7. Why Henry Drinks
  8. 18 Wheels Of Love
  9. Steve McQueen
10. Buttholeville
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Artist DRIVE BY TRUCKERS
Title Go Go Boots
Label PIAS
Double vinyl format includes an exclusive track, ‘I Hear You Hummin’

Artist Drive by Truckers
Title Pizza Deliverance
Label ZANE
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Artist Drive By Truckers
Title The Big To-Do
Label PIAS
The tenth album by Grammy Award winners the Drive-By Truckers. Starring: Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Brad Morgan, Shonna Tucker, John Neff, and Jay Gonzalez.

Artist Drive by Truckers
Title The Dirty South
Label NEWWEST
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