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Various Artists: The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook: The Classic Originals

Best known for sealing in amber the most remarkable talents of the Chicago blues scene's early days—before the scene became an exhausted cliché and fodder for celebrity-owned theme restaurants—the Che

Willie Nelson: Stardust

Though it might be frustrating for music collectors to replace outmoded editions of their favorite albums, it's hard to find fault in the glut of CD reissues in the '90s. After all, if a disc can hand

Scrawl: Nature Film

Scrawl has been performing since 1986, weathering the obnoxious "foxcore" tag, the departure of its original drummer, and the disappearance of its label (Rough Trade), all the while wonderfully refini

Barbara Manning: In New Zealand

Barbara Manning is a geek, but unlike most geeks, she has channeled her geekiness into a viable creative outlet. She's geeky for firefighters and fire engines, resulting in a mini rock opera called "T

Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues

For some artists, epiphanies arrive in the middle of the night with no warning. Steve Earle's came while he was serving time. Though he had been responsible for a string of acclaimed albums before his

Ugly Duckling: Journey To Anywhere

Ugly Duckling hails from Long Beach, the same Los Angeles suburb that spawned Snoop Dogg, but that's where the similarities end. Like fellow West Coast iconoclasts Blackalicious, People Under The Stai

Buddy Miller: Cruel Moon

Since so many of its songs are singalongs or romantic narratives, country music seems all but designed for duets. John Prine may be best known as a versatile singer-songwriter in the tradition of Bob

Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)

More than any other vocal-centered pop form, folk music encourages artists to cover one another. Like the best stories, the best folk songs are often passed from generation to generation by different

Michael Hutchence: Michael Hutchence

When musicians die, their unreleased work is bound to be seen differently way when it surfaces, whether as a sad last gasp (Freddie Mercury's The Great Pretender), a tragic reminder of lost potential

Odds: Nest

Squeeze hasn't made an album this good in ages, but there are moments on Odds' new Nest when you swear you're listening to that old venerable pop group. But Odds frontman Steven Drake pays so much att

A Tribe Called Quest: The Love Movement

The release of A Tribe Called Quest's 1990 debut album, People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, seemed to indicate a growing adventurousness in the world of rap music, especially in ligh

The Beach Boys: Keepin' The Summer Alive/The Beach Boys

The end of a decade brings with it all sorts of end-of-an-era implications that popular culture only seems to reinforce, and with each new decade, symbols of the previous period self-destruct or disap

Ivy: Apartment Life

There's nothing even remotely offensive about Ivy's smooth, moody, sweet-natured pop: Throughout the band's second full-length album, Apartment Life, it hums along with nary an abrasive moment, thanks

Chris Rock: Bigger And Blacker

In recent years, stand-up comedy has served mainly as a breeding ground for comics eager to move on to bigger and more lucrative things. Chris Rock, on the other hand, is possibly the only figure in r

Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man

Though it might be frustrating for music collectors to replace outmoded editions of their favorite albums, it's hard to find fault in the glut of CD reissues in the '90s. After all, if a disc can hand

Too $hort: Chase The Cat

Nothing kills a vibrant, subversive musical genre quite like canonization, and while hip-hop doesn't yet possess its own Experience Music Project or Hall Of Fame, it is showing signs of descent down t

U.S. Maple: Sang Phat Editor

From his new album's first moments, vocalist Al Johnson—who, along with guitarist Mark Shippy, was in the redneck noise combo Shorty—provides the only proof that there is any human presence amidst the

UNKLE: Psyence Fiction

As talented as the musicians involved may be, many of the full-length offerings from high-profile DJs like California's DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) come across as somewhat stilted. One obvious reason is th

Patti Smith: Peace And Noise

After an eight-year absence, the widely revered Patti Smith made a strong return with 1996's Gone Again. So much attention was devoted to the simple fact that she had come back—having lost a brother,

Jeffrey Clark: Sheer Golden Hooks

It's difficult to say whether Sheer Golden Hooks, the first solo release from former Shiva Burlesque singer Jeffrey Clark, is a pop album. It's got the hooks, the structure, the vocals and the lyrics,