Out Of The Box Cd Of The Week With Paul Shugrue

The Grammy winning duo have made a sophmore album even worthier than their first, but after announcing their break up, its also their swan song.

Rhode Islands little big band celebrates forty five years of Jump,Swing and Jazz Blues with 45 Live.

My Favorite Picture of You is the latest album from one of the lone survivors of the pioneering wave of artists who defined Americana Music.

Their new album is called Lickety Spilt because that's about how long it takes to get you in the groove on this over the top party record.

Runnin with the Wolf is a tribute album to Howlin' Wolf by the long time leader of OMar and the Howlers.

Its not the official soundtrack of the new movie remake but with such a wide variety of new songs from great Americana artists it captures the essence of this iconic American story.

The one time ambient, symphonic chillout band has erupted with an agressive, startling and ultimately grand spacerock album.

Blind Crippled and Crazy is the first album in forty years from Delbert McClinton and his first recording partner Glen Clark. It astonishes with its swagger, grit and humor.

Fossils is the debut album by longtime the Crooked Still vocalist and is one of the best folk albums of the year so far.

This collaboration between novelist Stephen King, rocker John Mellencamp, producer T-bone Burnette and an allstar cast is scarey good.

This British sounding American band bring their tradeMark doom and gloom sound to a level of artistic expression on their sixth album Trouble Will Find Me .

On their third album Modern Vampires of the City the band finds a unique and fun way to explore their quarter life crisis.

American Kid is her first album of original songs in six years and perhaps because it is inspired by the death of her father, its her best album yet.

Captains and Cowboys by one of Hampton Roads own, is recorded with a crack Nashville session band and has songs awash with daredevils and adventurers.

The Low Highway finds this verteran artist gazing out the window of his tour bus for inspiration, and what he sees isn't pretty.

Stories Don't End is the third album by this California band, honing the sound originated in the famed Laurel Canyon.

The Music is You pays gives us a new perspective on Denvers songs without the goody-goodiness of the originals.

Comedown Machine is almost like a tribute to the new wave bands of the eighties, with updated music.

The understated veteran indie band works with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco to evolve their slow, quiet, melancholy sound.

The Thin White Duke travels back in time to create an album as good as his seventies masterpieces. His first album is ten years is a spectacular comeback.