Country and Americana

Reviews of an expanded edition of Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother,' plus Big Country live, a doo-wop Christmas anthology, and more.

Reviews: a previously unissued 1967 Jimi Hendrix concert plus albums from Little Feat, Jon Dee Graham, Resonant Rogues, and Danny O'Keefe.

'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' is a terrific new book that contains previously unseen writings, drawings, handwritten lyrics, photos, and essays.

A new edition of Grateful Dead's Wake of the Flood includes a previously unreleased concert. Plus, reviews of CDs from Benny Goodman, Mac Curtis, Adam Palma, Be, and Ed Sweeney.

All five Tom Waits reissues offer evidence of Waits’s singular talent via soundscapes that draw on everything from blues, Kurt Weill, and carnival music to Captain Beefheart, sea shanties, and jazz.

An anthology collects nine classic Miles Davis albums. Plus Clarence White, Bobby Sutliff, and more.

Reviewed: a previously unreleased Fleetwood Mac live set, Willie Nelson's Bluegrass, Genya Raven reissues, and more.

After two energetic tracks, Heather Lynne Horton's album relaxes into a sweetly produced but sleepy string of shadowy ballads.

Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders deliver a new CD, plus reviews of Wild Rabbit Salad, Crowes Pasture, Torben Westergaard, and Johnny Rawls.

An anniversary edition of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture, plus a new CD from John Mellencamp and more.