Music Contents (11-30-98)

Volume II, Issue 23
November 30 - December 7, 1998

Music

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Soundbites [2]
Record stores are chock full of the latest Christmas albums by just about everybody who's ever recorded a note of music.
— Stephen Seigel, TUCSON WEEKLY

For the Record [3]
Need a record label for your jazz performer? Look no further than Nashville.
— Ron Wynn, NASHVILLE SCENE

Album Reviews
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10 'Graphs On 10 Live Albums [4]
Live is back with from-the-stage CDs from Garth Brooks, Hanson, Robyn Hitchcock, Wayne Kramer, Pearl Jam, Portishead, the Stones, Rush, Spiritualized, and 311.
— Matt Ashare, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Holy Cash Cow [5]
Disney's "Prince of Egypt" hasn't even opened, but three (count 'em) soundtracks are already in the stores.
— Gary Susman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Garageland [6]
Metallica's "Garage Days Re-Revisited" revives punk-metal nuggets.
— Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX

Is It Live? [7]
Garth does it again... and again.
— Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE

Mr. Superlove [8]
Rock 'n' roll with some underachievers.
— Ben Taylor, NASHVILLE SCENE

Art Of Song [9]
"Cry, Cry, Cry" celebrates songwriting.
— Dave Irwin, TUCSON WEEKLY

Frankly Speaking [10]
How today's country comedians could've made Minnie Pearl blush.
— Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE

For Mature Audiences [11]
Two great tastes... let's leave it at that.
— Noel Murray, NASHVILLE SCENE

Now What? [17]
If you go gaga over the sultry smoothness of a symphonic glissando, just wait till you experience our transitions to cool and useful music links on the Web.
— WEEKLY WIRE

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

ooking for something to get you into that holiday spirit? Tucson Weekly's Stephen Seigel gives us a rundown of music to lift the spirits in "Soundbites."

Two new labels are developing their jazz rosters using different methods, but with the same goal; getting them heard. Nashville Scene's Ron Wynn brings us the story in "For The Record."

Album reviews this week include a look at 10 new live recordings, three new "Prince of Egypt"-related releases, Metallica, Garth Brooks, Afghan Whigs, Cry Cry Cry, comedian Rodney Carrington, Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach, and more in Mini-Reviews.

Profiles feature down home blues artists Hosea Hargrove and Matthew Robinson, as well as Tejano great Manuel "Cowboy" Donley.

Artist Profiles
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Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions [12]
Hosea Hargrove and Matthew Robinson have been playing hot blues for decades now.
— Jay Hardwig, AUSTIN CHRONICLE

Beautiful Songs and Good, Heavy Sounds [13]
Manuel "Cowboy" Donley invigorated Austin's Tejano orquesta scene in the Forties and Fifties, and with a new album under his belt, he's ready to do it again.
— Belinda Acosta, AUSTIN CHRONICLE