Sunny Tennessee, Songs My Mother Used To Sing, Out In This Cold World, Rocky Mountain Rose, When The Candle Lights Are Gleaming, Under The Old Umbrella, Keep A Light In Your Window Tonight, Paint A Rose On The Garden Wall, Just A Kerosene Lamp, Please Let Me Broadcast To Heaven, Ive Nothing To Live For Now, Take Up Thy Cross And Follow Me, I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer, Under The Old Sierra Moon  (less)

they come to country via rock & roll, intertwining the styles in their own distinct way. The 27-song set (including a few brilliantly chosen covers) fuses pop sensibilities with lazy strumming, mandolin, pedal-steel, and a 2 a.m. smoke- and whiskey-soaked haze. The sound is understated, fitting for a band that played live perched on barstools, huddled around an old Tiffany lamp. By turns hauntingly bittersweet and foot-tappingly catchy, this collection is as warm as an old quilt, with just as much character. --Donovan Finn  (less)

The New Orleans-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter has inspired as many references to writers (Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor) as musicians (Nanci Griffith, Kris Kristofferson), and with good reason: She treats her lyrics with remarkable care and has a knack for penning truly involving narratives. Rosaryville , her fourth album, offers particularly striking chronicles of a prideful Cuban cigar maker ("Rosa's Coronas") and a dying mother fretting over her soon-to-be-orphaned son ("Who Will Pray for Junior"). Campbell doesn't wow one as a vocalist and her accompaniment is solid but not particularly memorable country folk. It's her way with words that elevates Rosaryville above the contemporary folk pack. --Steven Stolder  (less)

marked by polyrhythmic drums, over-the-top orchestration, and the raspy Knopfler/Springsteen affectations of Kevin. Lyrically, the brothers veer from straightforward, earnest love songs ("Sooner or Later") to something more topical (baby boomers get a sound thrashing on "Summer of Love [Woodstock '99]" and the alt-country effort "Don't Leave the Lava Lamp on for Me"). Flat storytelling, meanwhile, mars the likes of "Paris" and "Baby Steps." Still, while Can't Complain is far from groundbreaking, it's an easy listen for fans of tie-dyed rock. --Kelly Minnis  (less)

cak (pronounced chok) which is chanted in complex interlocking patterns similar to the rhythmic patterns played on the gamelan . The modern form of Kecak was created in the Gianyar village of Bedulu in the 1930s as the result of a commission by the German expatriate artist Walter Spies, wishing to create a performance event that could be enjoyed by a small coterie of expatriate artists, as well as friends and guests to the island. The modern performance of Kecak is a spectacular sight to behold. The chorus of chanting men has been enlarged to a hundred or more chanter/dancers, who sit in concentric circles around a flickering oil lamp at night. The chorus performs a highly-structured piece of vocal music of at least an hour in length. During the per...  (less)

Song of the Meadow and The Mountain High 6. This Land Is You and Me! And This Land Is Your Land and I Lift My Lamp 7. I Lift My Lamp with This Is My Country 8. When Johnny Comes Marching Home 9. This Is America! 10. On the Front Line of Freedom (Underscore) 11. The Final Full Measure of Devotion 12. Red, White and Blue (Underscore) 13. Sing the Stars and Stripes  (less)

of the 30-years-dead daddy of contemporary Mississippi hill country blues done by contemporary artists. Charlie Musselwhite zeroes in on McDowell's magic by swapping his trademark harp for guitar to play a spare, spirit-possessed "61 Highway." Paul Geremia nails the blaze of McDowell's slide for "Get Right Church," and Anders Osborne cops Fred's mumbling singing style in "Kokomo Blues." Although Colleen Sexton's vocal for "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" is overwrought, her band runs a nice arrangement similar to what Junior Kimbrough, one of McDowell's inheritors, might have done. Tab Benoit delivers an uncanny imitation of McDowell's guitar and vocal approach on "Train I Ride," and Austinite Sue Foley's dirty solo guitar-and-vocal treatment of "Frisc...  (less)

°Amazing Grace° (arr. John Barnard); °Common Dust° (Georgia Douglas Johnson); °Precious Lord, Take My Hand° (arr. Moses Hogan); °Keep Your Lamps!° (arr. Andre Thomas); °All My Trials° (arr. Norman Luboff); °If You Come Softly° (Audre Lorde); °We Shall Overcome° (arr. Moses Hogan); °This Is My Country° (arr. Moses Hogan); °Grass Roots° (arr. Moses Hogan); °Let America Be America Again° (arr. Moses Hogan).  (less)

TOUCHED ME 12 COME TO JESUS 13 HE CHOSE ME  (less)