Mike Zito
First Class Life (Ruf Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
First Class Life (Ruf Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
EJ (Provogue/Mascot Label Group). Review by Michelle Wilson.
CSNY 1974 (CSNY Recordings, Rhino ). Review by James Mann.
This deluxe anniversary edition of Dave Zimmer’s exhaustive CSN (and Y!) history offers a good many clues as to what exactly killed the hippie dream, thinks Matthew Moyer.
9 Distilled Dreams (Gravitation). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Farm Aid 2000, featuring Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Neil Young, Barenaked Ladies, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Sawyer Brown, Arlo Guthrie, North Mississippi Allstars, Shannon Curfman, Badi Assad Menagerie, Pat Green, Jimmy Sturr, Cowboy’s Nightmare, Trent Summar and the New Row Mob, and Chris DiCroce on September 17, 2000, at the Nissan Pavilion in Manassas, VA. Event review by Sean Slone.
Five years have passed since the release of the The Tree House, the remarkable hybrid documentary film by director Trương Minh Quý. Việt and Nam is Trương’s first fiction feature, and with about a week before it screens at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Lily and Generoso had an in-depth discussion with Trương about his ethereal and complex film.
Judy Craddock has a pulled pork sandwich after Colby Acuff’s set, not missing a beat of Midland’s wild west tour stop. Grand Junction, Colorado, gets “lucky sometimes.”
The granddaddy of old dark house mysteries, The Bat (1926) creeps onto Blu-ray from Undercrank Productions.