I think someone was griping because of my lack of one-liners and words of wisdom lately... okay then...

life's a bitch!



H E A V Y

1 ralph stanley & friends :clinch moutain country: 

  rebel [bg/c, gr]

2 mike ireland & holler :learning how to live: 

  sub pop [c, gr]

3 don walser :down at the sky-vue drive in: 

  sire/watermelon [c, gr]

4 nick lowe :dig my mood: upstart [p/f, y]

5 the gourds :stadium blitzer: watermelon/munich 

  usa [p/f, gr]

6 ost :the horse whisperer: mca [c/f, bg]

7 cornell hurd band :texas fruit shack: behemoth [c, gr]

8 george jones :it donUt get any better than this: 

  mca nashville [c, gr]

9 jim roll :ready to hang: one man clapping [f/r, gr}



M E D I U M

10 country gentlemen :early rebel recordings, 

   1962-1971: rebel [bg, gr]

11 bap kennedy :domestic blues: e-sqared [f/r, gr]

12 the schramms :dizzy spell: checkered past [p, y]

13 kate campbell :visions of plenty: compass [f/p, gr]

14 jason & the scorchers :midnight roads & stages 

   seen: mammoth [r, y]

15 trailer bride :smelling salts: bloodshot [nd, y]

16 redd volkaert :telewacker: hmg/hightone [c/b, gr]

17 johnny bush :talk to my heart: watermelon [c, gr]

18 sue foley :ten days in november: shanachie [b, gr]

19 bill fox :transit byzantium: spinart/cherry pop [p, y]

20 johnny dowd :wrong side of memphis: 

   checkered past [f/b, gr]

21 gene vincent & his blue caps :the lost dallas 

   sessions: dragon street [rb, gr]

22 chris buhalis :kenai dreams: thursday/one man 

   clapping [f/c, gr]

23 john hartford :the speed of the old long bow: 

   rounder [f/ot, gr]



LITE

24 moonshine willy :bastard child: bloodshot [nd, gr]

25 chris mills :every night fight for your life: 

   sugar free [f/r, gr]

26 chris knight CD decca [c/p, gr]

27 sam bush :howlinU at the moon: sugar hill [f/bg, gr]

28 v/a :uprooted: the best of roots country 

   singer-songwriters: shanachie [c/f, gr]

29 chris whitley :dirt floor: messenger [p/b, y]

30 alejandro escovedo :more miles than money: 

   live 1994-96: bloodshot [p,y]

31 the original harmony ridge creek dippers CD 

   ohrcd [p/f, gr]

32 josh rouse :dressed up like nebraska: rykodisc [r, y]

33 laurie lewis :seeing things: rounder [f/bg, gr]

34 kieran kane :six months, no sun: [f, gr]

35 paul burch & the wpa ball club :pan-american 

   flash: checkered past [c,gr]

36 jerry douglass :restless on the farm:  

   sugar hill [f, gr]

37 kim lenz and her jaguars CD hmg [rb, gr]

38 IIIrd tyme out :live at the mac: rounder [bg, gr]

39 waylon jennings :closing in on the fire:  ark21 [c. gr]

40 the fly-rite boys :big sandy presents: 

   hightone [c/ws, gr]



THE ADDS

pernice brothers :overcome by happiness: sub pop [r, y]

calexico :the black light: quarterstick [f/r, y]

joe ely :twistin in the wind: mca nashville [c/r, gr]

woody guthrie :hard travellin, the asch recordings, 

   vol. 3: smithsonian folkways [f, gr]

cordelias dad :spine: appleseed [f, gr]



RE-CURRENT

sara evans :three chords & the truth: rca nashville 

  [c, gr]

cheri knight :the northeast kingdom: e-squared 

  [nd/f/c,gr]

lee rocker :no cats: upright [rb, gr]

the hangdogs :east of yesterday:  crazyhead [c/r,gr]

roscoe holcomb :high lonesome sound: smithsonian 

  folkways [f, gr]

pinetop seven :no breath in the bellows: 

  self-help/atavistic [r, y]