Father Of Bluegrass (The Legend Lives On) - Bill Monroe

Advantages: A Classic Country Album
Disadvantages: You really need a sense of humor to appreciate the joke

...the pain that is being "legendary and Broke" and how being an old underground die hard doesn't pay the kids dental bills. During which he has a go at Henry Rollins, Courtney Love, Don Henley, the Grunge Scene and manages to prophesize the reformation of his old band Dead Kennedys. Similar lyrical themes are explored in the ballad "Nostalgia For an Age That Never Existed". Mojo's songs on the album include the Cajun influenced "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster", which is a tale of exploding chicken plants and union suppression in the US of A. "Lets Go Burn Olde Nashville Down" is a bluegrass rant about the desperate situation country music was in and is still in to a lesser degree the from the opening lines "Country Music Is Killing Itself, trying To be What It AinT" to the closing lines of "Country Music Don't Need Flutes or samplers neither... Read review

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Advantages: The first stunning live double album released by the mighty Grateful Dead.
Disadvantages: Not easily accessible to first time "Dead" listeners,especially improvised sections.

...This was the first Live Double Album released by these ground-breakers of psychedelic rock. Spawned in the Haight-Asbury area of San Francisco,this music evolved from folk,bluegrass,jazz and blues roots,and has become a powerful and lasting part of American culture. This album features a new direction,and a new line-up in the metamorphosis of the band,in that Tom Constanten came along on keyboards in Nov 1968,and Mickey Hart began his still existent double drumming partnership with Bill Kreutzmann. By the time of it's release on Nov 10th 1969,this unit had played together long enough to be able to flow together,and spark off unique musical conversations hitherto unknown,and taking free-form jazz a step further. The album begins with "Dark... Read review

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Advantages: Humourous lyrics, Pleasing melodies,
Disadvantages: Can be a little difficult to get

...County singer, Bobby Bare has released a surprising sometimes stunning new record, "The Moon Was Blue," co-produced by his son Bobby Bare Jr, twenty years after his last album. This was the gist of a recent newspaper article that caught my eye. Why? Well because way back in the 1970s, as a young babysitter, I was introduced to the music of Bobby Bare in particular his album, "Lullabys, Legends and Lies". On one of the tracks, a shy 5 year old Bobby Bare Jr duetted with his father to sing in a quivering voice "Daddy What If". The song was touching and thought-provoking. I loved it. So after reading the article, I dusted off the CD, and listened once more to the slow laid-back baritone as he sang to me "some tales about murder and blueberry pies, and heroes and hells and bottomless wells, and lullabies, legends and lies". Bobby Bare... Read review

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