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The Best Of Sesame Street - (SF Weekly, December 24, 2003)
The Beatles get Nekkid! - (SF Weekly, December 17, 2003)
Willie Nelson still rocks my world - (SF Weekly, August 8, 2003)
Uncle Tupelo are back - (SF Weekly, June 4, 2003)
Lucinda Williams gets down & dirty - (SF Weekly, May 7, 2003)
Jesse DeNatale - the Bard of Tomales Bay - (SF Weekly, March 26, 2003)
Ibrahim Ferrer plays San Francisco - (SF Weekly, March 26, 2003)
Be Good Tanyas are back! - (SF Weekly, March 19, 2003)
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - (SF Weekly, February 26, 2003)
(Also printed in The Cleveland Scene, March 5th, 2003)
Smokey & Miho play Os Afro Sambas - (SF Weekly, February 12, 2003)
The Many Moods Of Willie Nelson - (SF Weekly, February 5, 2003)
Kathleen Edwards' "Failer" - (SF Weekly, January 29, 2003)
Jazz Pianist Jacob Aginsky - (SF Weekly, January 15, 2003)
Bob Dylan lets his hair down in '75 - (SF Weekly, December 24, 2002)
Alice Stuart & Catherine Irwin - (SF Weekly, December 18, 2002)
Richard Buckner's "Impasse" - (SF Weekly, December 4, 2002)
(Also printed in "http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2002-12-12/hearthere4.html/1/index.html">The Dallas Observer.)
Johnny Cash and his many friends - (SF Weekly, November 20, 2002)
Buddy Miller's tales of the road - (SF Weekly, October 1, 2002)
Like, Omigod! The '80s are back... (not that they ever went away!) - (SF Weekly, September 18, 2002)
Cornelius comes to the City - (SF Weekly, August 21, 2002)
California Country - Dave Gleason's Wasted Days - (SF Weekly, August 21, 2002)
It's Just Kid's Stuff -- Alt.Country Children's Music - (SF Weekly, August 14, 2002)
Britpop -- Oasis & Jesus And Mary Chain - (SF Weekly, July 17, 2002)
Local Yokels Jill Olson & Red Meat - (SF Weekly, July 10, 2002)
The Flatlanders are back! - (SF Weekly, July 3, 2002)
Chuck Prophet On The Brink of Stardom? - (SF Weekly, June 12, 2002)
Jun Miyake's "Innocent Bossa In The Mirror" - (SF Weekly, May 29, 2002)
Hey, look -- I actually go to bat for Jeff Tweedy and Wilco! - (SF Weekly, May 22, 2002)
(Also ran in The Houston Press )
Keepin' It Reel with the Crooked Jades - (SF Weekly, April 24, 2002)
Three Reasons... A twangcore tribute to Robert Altman's "Nashville" - (SF Weekly, March 27, 2002)
Ottoman rock -- Turkish psychedelic music hits American shores - (SF Weekly, March 6, 2002)
Scratch Attack! An Irish punk helps American hip-hop move into the future - (SF Weekly, February 13, 2002)
Charley Patton - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - (SF Weekly, December 26, 2001)
An elegy for John Hartford - (SF Weekly, December 12, 2001)
Slack Keys and MP3s - Vintage Hawaiian Music meets the digital era - (SF Weekly, December 5, 2001)
The Velvet Underground in Frisco... - (SF Weekly, December 5, 2001)
(Also printed in The Dallas Observer and the Cleveland Scene...)
French cafe music -- a profile of The Baguette Quartette - (SF Weekly, November 11, 2001)
Terry Zwigoff's GHOST WORLD - (SF Weekly, October 3, 2001)
The Clean & Slumber Party - fuzzy, strummy rock'n'roll lives! - (SF Weekly, September 19, 2001)
The New Tweedy Brothers - the SF Sound's missing link - (SF Weekly, August 8, 2001)
Joe Goldmark - the Bay Area's pedal steel king - (SF Weekly, August 1, 2001)
Howdy! - from Teenage Fanclub - (SF Weekly, July 18, 2001)
NUGGETS II - the British are coming!! - (SF Weekly, June 27, 2001)
SAMBA SOUL '70 - a lounge-y guide to Brazilian soul - (SF Weekly, June 20, 2001)
Holly Golightly - profile of a garage rock goddess - (SF Weekly, June 20, 2001)
Lucinda Williams Goes Hi-Tech - (SF Weekly, June 13, 2001)
Moreno Veloso +2 - Brazilian acoustic electronica - (SF Weekly, May 16, 2001)
Where Are The Prawns? - Double albums by the Young Fresh Fellows & The Soft Boys - (SF Weekly, April 4, 2001)
Margo Guryan "Take A Picture" reissue - (SF Weekly, March 21, 2001)
Gram Parsons - home taping is thrilling country - (SF Weekly, March 14, 2001)
Kleenex/LiLiPUT - legendary Swiss riot madchen - (SF Weekly, March 7, 2001)
The Original Comets - (SF Weekly, January 17, 2001)
Holly Golightly... again! - (SF Weekly, January 10, 2001)
Los Shakers & Jovem Guarda - (SF Weekly, January 3, 2001)
Deke Dickerson plays the Great American - (SF Weekly, January 3, 2001)
A Dan Hicks profile - (SF Weekly, December 20, 2000)
Various Artists - ETHIOPIQUES v. 1-8 - (SF Weekly, December 13, 2000)
Johnny Cash & Merle Haggard - (SF Weekly, November 22, 2000)
The 6ths (SF Weekly, November 1, 2000)
Tom Lehrer (SF Weekly, October 11, 2000)
Arhoolie Record's 40th Anniversary (SF Weekly, October 11, 2000)
Rita Lee & Os Mutantes (SF Weekly, August 16, 2000)
