In the contemporary world of dwindling traditions, Christine Primrose offers a full dose of the real thing. Her high, emotive voice, singing in her native tongue, Gaelic, places her in stark contrast to the latest ethereal-voiced Celtic performers. Primrose opens the album with a simple a cappella version of "The Head of Gruinart Sands/Heather from Rona," the tale of an archer and the arrow that slays Sir Lachlan MacLean. Harp accompaniment highlights "The Dark Swarthy Lad," a love song d...   [ read more ]

CD $17.08

Rosanne Cash's catalog on Columbia is nothing if not formidable. Her pioneering meld of country, rock & roll (with an emphasis on "rock"), folk, and even blues, her topical concerns (which went deeper than most songwriters who came before her in taking on the tough topics of life), and her insistence on working outside the Nashville box scored her a number of hits and blazed the trail for many women who came later. King's Record Shop followed by two years her flirtation with the kin...   [ read more ]

CD $7.59

Three years after William Lee Ellis gained the attention of the world's blues community with his stellar third album and Yellow Dog Records debut, The Full Catastrophe, he arrived on a horse of a different color. Conqueroo is a record steeped deeply in all of the traditions that have informed Ellis' musical, spiritual, and emotional lives: folk, bluegrass, prewar blues, ragtime, country gospel, and classical, and yet what comes from his guitar and voice is entirely his o...   [ read more ]

CD $16.13