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PETER CASE Wig!... (Yep Roc) (4½ stars)
STONE RIVER BOYS Love On the Dial... (Cow Island) (4 stars)
MATT HARLAN Tips and Compliments... (Berkalin) (4 stars)
DARRELL SCOTT A Crooked Road... (Full Light) (4 stars)
SHANNON McNALLY & HOT SAUCE Coldwater... (self-released) (4½ stars)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS The Big To-Do... (ATO) (4 stars)
THE TEXAS SAPPHIRES As He Wanders... (Ike) (4 stars)
JOE PUG The Messenger... (Lightning Rod) (4 stars)
PATTY GRIFFIN Downtown Church... (Credential) (4½ stars)
JOY KILLS SORROW Darkness Sure Becomes This City... (Signature Sounds) (4½ stars)
WILL KIMBROUGH Wings... (Daphne) (4 stars)
MICHAEL ONEILL Ain't Leavin' Your Love... (Sleeping Trout Music) (4 stars)
ELLIOT RANDALL & THE DEADMEN Caffeine & Gasoline... (self released) (4 stars)
Various Artists Face a Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album... (Tompkins Square) (4 stars)
I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. Shoulda Been Gold: 2001-2009... (American Beat/Collectors' Choice) (4½ stars)
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C)... (Bordello) (4 stars)
DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE A Friend Of A Friend... (Acony) (4½ stars)
Various Artists Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via the Great Unknown... (101 Distribution) (3 stars)
CHRIS KNIGHT Trailer II... (Drifter’s Church/Thirty Tigers) (4 stars)
ROSIE FLORES Girl of the Century... (Bloodshot) (4 stars)
CAROLYN MARK & NQ ARBUCKLE Let's Just Stay Here... (Mint) (5 stars)
ROBERT EARL KEEN The Rose Hotel... (Lost Highway) (4 stars)
TERI JOYCE Kitchen Radio... (self released) (4 stars)
RED ROOSTER Walk....(Wondermore) (5 stars)
ROSANNE CASH The List... (Manhattan) (5 stars)
EMMITT-NERSHI BAND New Country Blues... (SCI Fidelity) (3½ stars)
PAUL BURCH Still Your Man... (Ramseur) (5 stars)
AMY SPEACE The Killer In Me... (Wildflower) (4½ stars)
JOHN FOGERTY The Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again... (Verve/Forecast) (4 stars)
THE SWEETBACK SISTERS Chicken Ain't Chicken....(Signature Sounds) (4½ stars)
GRANT LANGSTON Stand Up Man... (MSG) (4 stars)
LEVON HELM Electric Dirt… (Vanguard) (4 stars)
DADDY For A Secong Time... (Cedar Creek) (5 stars)
SLAID CLEAVES Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away... (Music Road) (4½ stars)
ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane & Sugarcane ...(HRM) (5 stars)
STEVE EARLE Townes… (New West) (4 stars)
Various Artists Man of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney... (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
WAYNE HANCOCK Viper of Melody... (Bloodshot) (4 stars)
THE FLATLANDERS Hills And Valleys… (New West) (4 stars)
JOHN DOE & THE SADIES Country Club... (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
SARA WATKINS Sara Watkins... (Nonesuch) (5 stars)
SARAH BORGES and the BROKEN SINGLES The Stars Are Out… (Sugar Hill) (3½ stars)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Midnight at the Movies… (Bloodshot) (4 stars)
Various Artists Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm... (Vanguard) (3½ stars)
BRIGITTE DEMEYER Red River Flower... (self released) (4½ stars)
THE GOURDS Haymaker!... (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
BEN KWELLER Changing Horses... (ATO)
GURF MORLIX Last Exit To Happyland... (self released) (4½ stars)
ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES Weary Things... (City Salvage) (4 stars)
JAMEY JOHNSON That Lonesome Song... (Mercury Nashville) (4½ stars)
JORMA KAUKONEN River of Time... (Red House) (4½ stars)
MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS Ready For The Flood... (New West) (4½ stars)
BRUCE ROBISON The New World... (Premium) (4 stars)
RODNEY CROWELL Sex & Gasoline... (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
BILL BARTHOLOMEW World On A Wire... (self released) (3½ stars)
BORIS GARCIA Once More Into The Bliss... (Dig Music) (4 stars)
THE DIXONS Still Your Fool... (Cow Island) (4 stars)
JOHNNY CASH At Folsom Prison... (Columbia/Legacy) (4 stars)
CHRIS KNIGHT the trailer tapes... (Drifter’s Church/Thirty Tigers) (4 stars)
HAL KETCHUM Father Time... (Curb) (5 stars)
TODD SNIDER Peace Queer... (Aimless) (3½ stars)
CHRIS KNIGHT Heart of Stone... (Drifter’s Church) (5 stars)
MARE WAKEFIELD Ironwood... (self-released) (4 stars)
JOHN MELLENCAMP Life, Death, Love, And Freedom... (Hear Music) (4 stars)
CHARLIE HADEN FAMILY & FRIENDS Rambling Boy (Decca) (4½ stars)
LYNNE HANSON Eleven Months... (MAPL) (4½ stars)
KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON Rattlin' Bones... (Sugar Hill) (5 stars)
JAMES HUNTER The Hard Way... (GO/Hear Music) (4½ stars)
SERA CAHOONE Only as the Day is Long... (Subpop) (5 stars)
SLEEPERCAR West Texas... (Doghouse)  (4 stars)
ABI TAPIA The Beauty in the Ruin... (Moon House) (4 stars)
DARRELL SCOTT Modern Hymns... (Appleseed) (4½ stars)
BLUE MOUNTAIN Midnight in Mississippi... (Broadmoor) (4½ stars)
LAURA CANTRELL Trains And Boats And Planes... (Diesel Only) (4 stars)
RY COODER I, Flathead... (Nonesuch) (4 stars)
BEN SOLLEE Learning To Bend... (sonaBlast!/Thirty Tigers) (4½ stars)
ALABAMA3 Hits and Exit Wounds... (One Little Indian) (4 stars)
DONAL HINELY Blue State Boy... (Scuffletown) (5 stars)
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Real Animal ... (Back Porch/Manhattan) (4½ stars)
HEYBALE The Last Country Album... (Shuffle 5) (3½ stars)
EMMYLOU HARRIS All I Intended To Be… (Nonesuch) (4½ stars)
ARLAN FEILES Come Sunday Morning... (Not-Pop Records) (5 stars)
CROOKED STILL Still Crooked... (Signature Sounds) (4 stars)
ALUN PIGGINS At War With the Elephants (Moldy Floor Records)
THE BAND OF HEATHENS The Band Of Heathens... (BOH) (4 stars)

 

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