Jerry Garcia/David Grisman
Artist: Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Community Score: 8.33

This Grammy-nominated disc heralds the origins of the highly acclaimed acoustic duo of Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) and David "Dawg" Grisman (mandolin). They had been chums for years by the time they began their direct partnership in earnest on December 7, 1990, with a nine-song set at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, CA. Over half of that... Read More

V.O.L.
Artist: Vigilantes of Love
Community Score: 3.50

The first Vigilantes of Love album on the Warner Brothers label is a retrospective of their first five CDs, which featured five different band lineups. Fittingly, singer-songwriter Bill Mallonee has recorded four new songs for the compilation with yet another new band. With the exception of the rock-hymn "Double Cure," the new songs are the... Read More

Gold Anniversary Edition
Artist: Neil Young
Greatest Hits - UK
Artist: Bob Dylan
Balinese Dancer
Artist: Chuck Prophet

This ballad-oriented solo outing from former Green on Red guitarist Chuck Prophet offers up spare swamp rock, setting the singer's dusky voice against a backdrop of slide, steel and finger-picked electric guitars. Opting for mood as much as content, the material is simple and homespun, adding touches of the blues and zydeco for an authentic... Read More

Return Flight
Artist: McGuinn, Clark & Hillman

A sort of best-of McGuinn, Clark & Hillman and McGuinn-Hillman, drawn from all three Capitol albums, its 14 songs distilling most of their best and liveliest (and most Byrds-like) moments. The highlights include McGuinn's "Eight Miles High"-inspired 12-string playing on "City," plus the soaring "Givin' Herself Away," the haunting "Angel," and... Read More

Back from Rio
Artist: Roger McGuinn

After spending the better part of the 1980s as a solo acoustic troubadour, Byrds cofounder Roger McGuinn landed a contract for a solo album with Arista Records at the turn of the 1990s. Featuring Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and ex-Byrds David Crosby and Chris Hillman, the resultant album had a strangely modern feel, although it was primarily... Read More

Cardiff Rose
Artist: Roger McGuinn

On the surface, Roger McGuinn, the former leader and 12-string jangle-meister of the Byrds, and Mick Ronson, who contributed the wicked guitar crunch to David Bowie's Spiders from Mars period, might seem like a wildly unlikely musical combination, but the two became friendly when they both toured as part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, and... Read More

Relix Records Best of Blues, Vol. 3
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen