Ep or mini album. Where is the dividing line. This delightful disc has all of 7 songs. Its a collaboration between two of the brightest lights of alternative country today, Calexico and Iron & Wine. As an added bonux there is an appearance by Salvador Duran, a Mexican tenor on...

Hands in the air please for the return of Arizona's number one sons. All the tropes are in place... the brushed rattling percusion, the twangero guitar, the open, desert-evoking sound. And yes, the return of the mariachi blare that so suits the writing of Covertino and Burns. After their disappointingly...

Calexico have cast aside their familiar mariachi brass and pedal steel atmospherics in favour of a more straightforward, song-based approach on fifth album Garden Ruin. ...

DON GIBSON WITH SPANISH GUITARS

(RCA Victor LSP-3594)
July/1966
Produced by Chet Atkins

180 gram vinyl LP reissue.

This is on of the recent high quality record releases by warner Records. Mastered by Stan Ricker and pressed onto rather lovely 180grm vinyl biscuits it was always going to sound good. Helpfully the copious liner notes(complete with full lyrics) let us know that this was recorded with amd opteron processors....

The queen of alt/folk/indie/country/whatever's best album finally gets the treatment it deserves.

My initial response to this record was one of mild dismay, the songs seemed perversely stained with sonics, particularly discordant guitar and one wondered if Wilco's main man Jeff Tweedy really had take one left turn too many. Eventually though over time the more sense the record made until almost...