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Barenaked Ladies: Grinning Streak [Digipak] *

CD / Vanguard / 2013-06-04

Tracks: Limits; Boomerang; Off His Head; Gonna Walk; Odds Are; Keepin' It Real; Give It Back to You; Best Damn Friend; Did I Say That Out Loud?; Daydreamin'; Smile; Crawl
Artists: Barenaked Ladies

Personnel: Ed Robertson (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Kevin Hearn (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordion, melodica, piano, celesta, keyboards, s...continue...

Country Joe & the Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and Body [Digipak]

CD / Vanguard / 2013-04-02

Tracks: Flying High - (mono); Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - (mono); Death Sound - (mono); Porpoise Mouth - (mono); Section 43 - (mono); Superbird - (mono); Sad and Lonely Times - (mono); Love - (mono); Bass...
Artists: Country Joe & the Fish

Country Joe & The Fish: Joe McDonald, Barry Melton, David Cohen, Bruce Barthol, Chicken Hirsh.

Personnel: Barry Melton (vocals, guitar); Joe McDonald (vocals, harmonica, tambourine, bells); Dav...continue...

The Living Sisters: Run for Cover [Digipak] *

CD / Vanguard / 2013-01-08

Tracks: Make Love to Me; Can You Get to That?; Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be); Poor Man's Roses, A (Or a Rich Man's Gold); Jolene; Sweet Dreams
Artists: The Living Sisters

Personnel: Jeremy Drake (guitar); Don Heffington (drums).

Audio Mixer: Sheldon Gomberg.

Recording information: The Carriage House, Los Angeles, CA.

Despite busy careers (and lives...continue...

Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun Live! [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Vanguard / 2012-11-19

Artists: Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun Live! [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Vanguard / 2012-11-19

Artists: Chris Isaak

Mike Seeger: Mike Seeger

CD / Vanguard / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Hello Stranger; Oh Molly Dear; Bachelor's Hall; We Live a Long Long Time; Fishing Blues; Johnny Grey; Two Soldiers, The; Waterbound; Leather Breeches; Young McAfee on the Gallows; Old Rachel; It'll A...
Artists: Mike Seeger

Personnel: Mike Seeger (guitar, banjo, dulcimer, autoharp, fiddle).

Liner Note Author: John Crosby .

Photographer: Jim Marshall .

Although Mike Seeger's brand of reverently tradit...continue...

Hedy West: Hedy West/Volume 2 *

CD / Vanguard / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Drowsy Sleeper; Cotton Mill Girls; Erin's Green Shore; Shady Grove; Single Girl; Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie; 500 Miles; Brown Girl, The; Letter from Down the Road; Little Willie; Sweet Jane; Min...
Artists: Hedy West

Liner Note Author: Ken Hunt.

Photographer: Jim Marshall .

Of the many musicians to make names for themselves and record on prominent labels during the folk revival, Hedy West remains one...continue...

Various Artists: Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene: Vanguard Records & the 1960s Musical Revolution [Box]

CD / Vanguard / 2012-06-05

Tracks: I'm So Glad - Skip James; Done Got Wise - Big Bill Broonzy; Stagolee - Mississippi John Hurt; Gospel Train - Golden Gate Quartet; Oh Mary, Don't You Weep - The Swan Silvertones; Prodigal Son, The - R...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: John Crosby .

Introduction by: Samuel Charters.

Begun in 1950 by brothers Maynard & Seymour Solomon, Vanguard Records was initially a classical label, although it issu...continue...

Robert Francis: Strangers in the First Place

1 CD / Vanguard / 2012-05-22

Tracks: Tunnels; Some Things Never Change; Perfectly Yours; Alibi; Eighteen; Star Crossed Memories; It First Occurred to Me; Heroin Lovers; I Sail Ships; Closest Exit, The; Wild Thing; Dangerous Neighborhood
Artists: Robert Francis

Greg Laswell: Landline *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2012-05-08

Tracks: Come Back Down; I Might Drop By; Another Life To Lose; Eyes On You; Back To You; Late Arriving; Dragging You Around; Nicely Played; New Year's Eves; It's Settled Now; Landline
Artists: Greg Laswell

Audio Mixer: Greg Collins .

Landline, Greg Laswell's 2012 follow-up to the celebrated Take a Bow, may sound less tortured than its predecessor but there's plenty of pathos to go around. Recorde...continue...

Matt Nathanson: Left & Right, Vol. 2: Live @ Newbury Comics/Live @ Music Millennium [EP] *

CD / Vanguard / 2012-04-17

Tracks: Intro; Modern Love; Room @ the End of the World; Bottom of the Sea; Faster; Kept
Artists: Matt Nathanson

Nellie McKay: Obligatory Villagers [Edited]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-11-01

Tracks: Mother of Pearl; Oversure; Gin Rummy; Livin; Identity Theft; Galleon; Politan; Testify; Zombie
Artists: Nellie McKay

Personnel: Nellie McKay (vocals, ukulele, piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ, glockenspiel, xylophone, timpani, gong, chimes); Vicki Doney, Bob Dorough (vocals); Spencer Reed (guitar); Eric Doney (accordio...continue...

Nellie McKay: Obligatory Villagers [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-11-01

Tracks: Mother of Pearl; Oversure; Gin Rummy; Livin'; Identity Theft; Galleon; Politan; Testify; Zombie
Artists: Nellie McKay

The irony inherent in Obligatory Villagers, the shortest of Nellie McKay's first three albums, is that it's her most difficult to understand, comprehend, or even take in. This despite the fact that, u...continue...

Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-10-18

Tracks: Ring of Fire; Trying to Get to You; I Forgot to Remember to Forget; Great Balls of Fire; Can't Help Falling In Love; Dixie Fried; How's the World Treating You; It's Now or Never; Miss Pearl; Live It ...
Artists: Chris Isaak

Personnel: Chris Isaak (vocals); Hershel Yatovitz (vocals, guitar); Kenney Dale Johnson (vocals, drums); Ashley Monroe, Jon Joyce , Craig Copeland, Michelle Branch, Richard Wells, Rowland Salley (voca...continue...

Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun [Deluxe Edition]

2 CD / Vanguard / 2011-10-18

Tracks: Ring of Fire; Trying to Get to You; I Forgot to Remember to Forget; Great Balls of Fire; Can't Help Falling in Love; Dixie Fried; How's the World Treating You; It's Now or Never; Miss Pearl; Live It ...
Artists: Chris Isaak

Personnel: Chris Isaak (vocals); Hershel Yatovitz (vocals, guitar); Kenney Dale Johnson (vocals, drums); Ashley Monroe, Jon Joyce , Craig Copeland, Michelle Branch, Richard Wells, Rowland Salley (voca...continue...

Indigo Girls: Beauty Queen Sister [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-10-04

Tracks: Share the Moon; John; Beauty Queen Sister; We Get to Feel It All; War Rugs; Gone; Mariner Moonlighting; Birthday Song; Feed and Water the Horses; Making Promises; Damo; Able to Sing; Yoke
Artists: Indigo Girls

Audio Mixer: Trina Shoemaker.

Recording information: Ocean Way Studio, Nashville, TN.

Illustrator: Joseph Peery.

Beauty Queen Sister, the Indigo Girls' 14th studio album, and the ...continue...

The Gourds: Old Mad Joy *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-09-13

Tracks: I Want It So Bad; Drop the Charges; Two Sparrows; Drop What I'm Doing; Haunted; Melchert; Ink and Grief; Peppermint City; Marginalized; You Must Not Know; Eyes of a Child; Your Benefit
Artists: The Gourds

Audio Mixer: Justin Guip.

Recording information: Levon Helm Studios, Woodstopck, NY (03/21/2011-04/01/2011).

Photographers: Roger Mayne; Joe Ryan; Joe Priesnitz.

The Gourds' tenth...continue...

Matt Nathanson: Modern Love [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-06-21

Tracks: Faster; Modern Love; Love Comes Tumbling Down; Room @ the End of the World; Kiss Quick; Mercy; Kept; Run - (featuring Kristian Bush/Jennifer Nettles); Queen of (K)Nots; Drop to Hold You; Bottom of th...
Artists: Matt Nathanson

"Dear summer, your soundtrack has arrived"-Seattle PI

"an album.
a collection of songs.
short stories. tied together.
peoples stories. about love.
about faith in others. or loss of ...continue...
Personnel: Zac Rae (guitar, baritone ukulele, keyboards, glockenspiel, drums, percussion, programming); Kristian Bush, David Levita, Aaron Tap, Michael Chaves (guitar); David Moyer (woodwinds, tenor s...continue...

Viva Voce (Indie): The Future Will Destroy You *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-06-21

Tracks: Plästic Rädio; Analog Woodland Song; Diamond Mine; Black Mood Ring; No Ship Coming In; Future Will Destroy You, The; Cool Morning Sun; We Don't Care; Viking Love Song, A; Wondering Soul, The
Artists: Viva Voce (Indie)

Audio Mixer: Viva Voce .

Recording information: Amore!Phonics Studios, Portland, OR.

Viva Voce's 2011 release The Future Will Destroy You is an expansive and somewhat slow-burning mix of...continue...

Kimberly Caldwell: Without Regret [Digipak] *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-04-19

Tracks: Desperate Girls & Stupid Boys; Heart Like Mine; Naked; Hotter Without You; Say Love; Mess of You; If You're Gonna Fall; Taking Back My Life; Going Going Gone; Frozen; Human After All
Artists: Kimberly Caldwell

Personnel: Michael Chaves (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Izler (electric guitar); Zac Rae (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Aaron Sterling (drums, percussion); Marshall ...continue...

Daphne Willis: Because I Can [Digipak] *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-04-19

Tracks: Shake It Off; One by One; Spit It Out; Sad; Do What You Want; I Will Be Waiting; Is Anyone There?; Song Song, The; Circumstances; Weatherman; I Want To; Slow Down
Artists: Daphne Willis

Audio Mixers: Marc Lacuesta; Tim Lauer.

Photographer: Lauren Dukoff.

Daphne Willis' first album for Vanguard, What to Say, was the work of a 22-year-old singer and songwriter who was cle...continue...

Stacy Clark: Connect the Dots *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2011-02-15

Tracks: Not Enough; All Time Low; White Lies; Air Force; Fireworks; Touch & Go; Hold On; Anywhere; Misery; Don't Take What's Mine; Hide; I Do
Artists: Stacy Clark

Personnel: Stacy Clark (vocals, guitar, piano); Matt Appleton (vocals, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, flute, harmonica, accordion, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, organ, percussion); Tyler ...continue...

Stacy Clark: Connect the Dots *

CD / Vanguard / 2010-09-21

Tracks: Not Enough; All Time Low; White Lies; Air Force; Fireworks; Touch & Go; Hold On; Anywhere; Misery; Don't Take What's Mine; Hide; I Do
Artists: Stacy Clark

Personnel: Stacy Clark (vocals, guitar, piano); Matt "Hippie" Appleton (vocals, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, flute, harmonica, accordion, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, organ, percussion...continue...

Blue Giant: Blue Giant [Digipak] *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2010-07-13

Tracks: Clean the Clock; Blue Sunshine; Wesley; Lonely Girl; Target Heart; When Will the Sun Shine?; Go On; Run Rabbit Run; Gone for Good; Game, The; Void Above the Sky, The; Reasons to Cry
Artists: Blue Giant

Personnel: Anita Robinson (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, slide guitar); Kevin Robinson (vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, percussion); Ch...continue...

Daphne Willis: What to Say

1 CD / Vanguard / 2010-05-18

Tracks: Everybody Else; Bluff; Far Away; All I Know; What To Say; Love And Hate; Not Always Easy; Swirl; Still Tryin'; Yellow Dress; Pulled Tight; Jim Thornton
Artists: Daphne Willis

Photographer: Laura Crosta.

What if Jason Mraz and John Mayer were trapped inside the body of a twenty-something girl with a voice that alternately sounds like Rickie Lee Jones, Macy Gray, and ...continue...

Greg Laswell: Take a Bow [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2010-05-04

Tracks: Take Everything; My Fight (For You); Lie To Me; Come Clean; Around The Bend; Take a Bow; In Front of Me; You, Now; Marquee; Off I Go; Let It Ride; Goodbye
Artists: Greg Laswell

Personnel: Greg Laswell (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, shaker, tambourine, bells, drum programming); Brian Wrigh...continue...

Daphne Willis: What to Say

CD / Vanguard / 2010-02-09

Tracks: Everybody Else; Bluff; Far Away; All I Know; What to Say; Love and Hate; Not Always Easy; Swirl; Still Tryin'; Yellow Dress; Pulled Tight; Jim Thornton
Artists: Daphne Willis

Photographers: Laura Crosta; Scott Bacon.

What if Jason Mraz and John Mayer were trapped inside the body of a twenty-something girl with a voice that alternately sounds like Rickie Lee Jones, M...continue...

The Watson Twins: Talking to You, Talking to Me

1 CD / Vanguard / 2010-02-09

Tracks: Modern Man; Harpeth River; Forever Me; Midnight; Savin' You; Brave One; Devil in You; Snow Canyons; Tell Me Why; Calling Out; Give Me a Chance; U N Me
Artists: The Watson Twins

2010 release from the Folk/Roots Pop duo, undoubtedly their most ambitious to date. The album finds The Watson Twins taking a soulful turn à la...continue...
Personnel: Chandra Watson (vocals, guitar); Leigh Watson (vocals); Russell Pollard (guitar, drums, percussion); Bo Koster (keyboards).

Audio Mixer: Kevin Augunas.

Recording information: ...continue...

Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy

1 DVD Video / Vanguard / 2009-11-17

Artists: Indigo Girls

The forthcoming DVD release Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy demonstrates why the GRAMMY award-winning folk-rock duo Indigo Girls continue to draw capacity crowds over...continue...

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers: The Bear [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-09-08

Tracks: Bear, The; A (With Love); Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts; See Yourself; Oh Adeline; Dying Wish of a Teenager; All Part of the Show; Satisfied Man; My Old Man; Do; Lonely in Columbus; Mabeline; ...
Artists: Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers

Audio Mixers: Sam Kassirer; Brandon Eggleston; Tom Schick.

Recording information: Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT; Great North Sound Society, Parsonsfield, ME; Sackamusic, Conway, MA; The Maid's Ro...continue...

Mindy Smith: Stupid Love [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-08-11

Tracks: What Went Wrong; Highs and Lows; If I Didn't Know Any Better; Love Lost; Telescope; What Love Can Do; Couldn't Stand the Rain; Bad Guy; Surface; Disappointed; True Love of Mine; Love Chases After Me;...
Artists: Mindy Smith

With an angelic voice and songs full of faith, grace and vulnerability, acclaimed singer/songwriter Mindy Smith has been embraced by critics and fans alike with...continue...
Personnel: Mindy Smith (vocals, recorder, background vocals); Ian Fitchuk (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming); Daniel Tashian (vocals, e...continue...

Trevor Hall: Trevor Hall

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-07-28

Tracks: Internal Heights; Who You Gonna Turn To; Unity; Lime Tree, The; Volume; House; Where's The Love; Origami Crane; My Baba; 31 Flavors; Sing The Song; Many Roads
Artists: Trevor Hall

Listening to the breezy, reggae-flavored pop of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Trevor Hall, it's hard to imagine it as the product of a 22-year-old, South Carolina-born, resident of a Hindu ashra...continue...

Carbon Leaf: Nothing Rhymes with Woman [Slimline] *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-05-19

Tracks: Indecision; Another Man's Woman; Miss Hollywood; Cinnamindy; Lake of Silver Bells; What Have You Learned ?; Mexico; X-Ray; Drops of Rain; Meltdown; Pink; Snowfall Music; Seed
Artists: Carbon Leaf

2009 release from the Virginia-based Pop/Rock outfit. Some bands insist on dragging listeners into their world, but Carbon Leaf works towards a more admirable and...continue...
Personnel: Terry Clark , Barry Privett, Carter Gravatt (vocals, guitar); Jon Markel (bass guitar); Jason Neal (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Trina Shoemaker.

Carbon Leaf are known var...continue...

Various Artists: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-03-24

Tracks: She's About a Mover; And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down; Too Little Too Late; You Was For Real; Dynamite Woman; Ta Bueno Compadre [It's Ok Friend] - West Side Horns; Texas Me; I'm Not That Kat Anymore;...
Artists: Various Artists

2009 tribute to the Tex-Mex great. Doug Sahm created a vast musical impact over a 50- year career. Starting in Texas and traveling far beyond,...continue...
Tributee: Doug Sahm.

Liner Note Authors: David Katznelson; Bill Bentley.

Photographers: Baron Wolman; Scott Newton.

Despite a couple of hits (1965's "She's About A Mover" and 1969...continue...

The Alternate Routes: A Sucker's Dream [Slipcase] *

1 CD / Vanguard / 2009-02-24

Tracks: On and On We Whisper; Ain't No Secret; All That I See; Future's Nothing New, The; Just a Dream; Desdemona; Toe the Line; Sucker's Dream, A; Already November; Never Gonna Be Rich; Better Way, A
Artists: The Alternate Routes

Personnel: Tim Warren, Eric Donnelly, Mike Semobs, Mike Sembos, Eric Donnelly (vocals, guitar); Chip Johnson (vocals, bass guitar); Jay Joyce (organ).

Additional personnel: Giles Reeves (piano,...continue...

Live: Live at the Paradiso Amsterdam *

2 CD / Vanguard / 2008-11-11

Tracks: Simple Creed; All Over You; River, The; Dolphins Cry, The; I Walk the Line; Selling the Drama; Lightning Crashes; Turn My Head; I Alone; Heaven; Lakini's Juice; Overcome; Operation Spirit; Dance With...
Artists: Live

Live has been one of the most successful and enduring alternative rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s, and despite their long list of achievements,...continue...
Live: Ed Kowalczyk (vocals, guitars); Chad Taylor (guitars, background vocals); Patrick Dahlheimer (bass guitar); Chad Gracey (drums).

Audio Mixers: Ronald Prent; CJ Eiriksson.

Audio Rem...continue...

Pictures and Sound: Pictures and Sound

1 CD / Vanguard / 2008-08-19

Tracks: Everything Leaves A Mark; Last Ocean, The; Forever To Reach; It's You; Shadow Boxing; Big Screen; 100 Directions; Youth, The; Every War - (featuring Willie Nelson); Space Between The Lines
Artists: Pictures and Sound

Luke Reynolds writes 'This is the blog for my band, Pictures And Sound. We just finished recording our debut record produced by Jacquire King (Modest...continue...
Personnel: Willie Nelson, Luke Reynolds.

While his previous band Blue Merle perfected an Americana-tinged contemporary pop, Luke Reynolds' first full-length as a solo artist--under the name Pic...continue...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Everything You Want for Christmas

1 CD / Vanguard / 2008-08-04

Tracks: Rockabilly Christmas; Merry Christmas Baby; Mr. Heatmiser - (from "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"); Blue Christmas; Last Night (I Went Out With Santa Claus); Christmastime in Tinsel Town; Party for ...
Artists: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

On October 12th, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will release a Christmas album, Everything You Want for Christmas, composed largely of originals like "Last Night I...continue...
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Dirk Shumaker (double bass); Scotty Morris, Joshua Levy, Kurt Sodergren, Glen "The Kid" Marhevka, Karl Hunter, Andy Rowley.

Personnel: Scotty Morris (vocals, guitar); Andy...continue...

The Vanguard: The Vanguard

CD / Vanguard / 2008-06-24

Tracks: Bright Lights; Rio; Fiasko; Go On; All I Want; Monday Night
Artists: The Vanguard

The Watson Twins: Fire Songs

1 CD / Vanguard / 2008-06-24

Tracks: How Am I To Be; Lady Love Me; Fall; Just Like Heaven; Map To Where You Are; Dig a Little Deeper; Sky Open Up; Bar Woman Blues; Only You; Old Ways; Waves
Artists: The Watson Twins

The Watson Twins. Identical twins Chandra and Leigh Watson, veterans of the contemporary folk rock scene in Los Angles will release Fire Songs, their label...continue...
Though the singing duo of Chandra and Leigh Watson have released several earlier albums on their own, it was their collaboration with Rilo Kiley lead singer Jenny Lewis on her solo album, RABBIT FUR C...continue...

Shawn Mullins: Honeydew [Digipak]

1 CD / Vanguard / 2008-03-11

Tracks: All in My Head; Home; Ballad of Kathryn Johnston, The; Homeless Joe; Leaving All Your Troubles Behind; Fraction of a Man; See That Train; For America; Cabbagetown; Nameless Faces; Song of the Self (C...
Artists: Shawn Mullins

Honeydew teems with humanity as the most panoramic and personal album of Mullins' career. The recording took place at Creekside Station, the rural Georgia studio...continue...
Personnel: Peter Stroud (electric guitar, resonator guitar); Clay Cook (lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, electric bass); Gerry Hansen (lap steel guitar, drums,...continue...

Levon Helm: Dirt Farmer

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-10-30

Tracks: False Hearted Lover Blues; Poor Old Dirt Farmer; Mountain, The; Little Birds; Girl I Left Behind, The; Calvary; Anna Lee; Got Me a Woman; Train Robbery, A; Single Girl, Married Girl; Blind Child; Fee...
Artists: Levon Helm

2007 solo album from the former Band member, his first solo effort in 25 years. Most of the tracks in Dirt Farmer are covers of...continue...
Personnel: Levon Helm (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums); Amy Helm (vocals, mandola, mandolin, piano, drums, percussion, background vocals); Larry Campbell (acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, ...continue...

Joan Baez: Carry It On

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-09-11

Tracks: Oh Happy Day; Carry It On; In Forty Days; Hickory Wind; Last Thing on My Mind, The; Life Is Sacred; Joe Hill; I Shall Be Released; Do Right Woman, Do Right Man; Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word; Suzan...
Artists: Joan Baez

Personnel includes: Joan Baez (vocals, guitar); David Harris, Jeffery Shurtleff.

Contains songs from the original soundtrack of the film CARRY IT ON.

The soundtrack to a 1970 documentary...continue...

Matt Nathanson: Some Mad Hope

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-08-14

Tracks: Car Crash; Come on Get Higher; Heartbreak World; Gone; Wedding Dress; Bulletproof Weeks; To the Beat of Our Noisy Hearts; Still; Detroit Waves; Falling Apart; Sooner Surrender; All We Are
Artists: Matt Nathanson

Matt Nathanson doesn't waste any time setting the tone for his transfixing new album, Some Mad Hope. Diving headlong into a sea of chiming guitars,...continue...
Personnel: Matt Nathanson (acoustic guitar); Michael Chavez (guitar); Mark Weinberg, Aaron Tap (electric guitar); Ben West (keyboards); John Thomasson (electric bass); Jason McGerr, Jason McKenzie (dr...continue...

Jonathan and Leigh: Third and Main

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-19

Tracks: Constant Tuesday; Someday Baby; Tapestry; Brownsville; Song For Shelley; Thrid and Main; Balm in Gilead; Cocaine Blues; Summer Sorrow; Winding River; Chances; If the Earth Be Round
Artists: Jonathan and Leigh

A welcome midprice CD release for this rare Vanguard album from 1967. Jonathan & Leigh were a male-female duo consisting of Jonathan Alden and Sandy...continue...
Jonathan and Leigh's sole album was half-decent, if hardly electrifying, early folk-rock, with that tentative getting-used-to-electric-folk sound heard on numerous New York-produced records of the mid...continue...

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Vanguard Visionaries

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-12

Tracks: Universal Soldier, The; Now That the Buffalo's Gone; Cod'ine; Little Wheel Spin and Spin; My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying; God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot; Vampire, The; Helpless; Native Nort...
Artists: Buffy Sainte-Marie

As the title says, Buffy Sainte-Marie is a visionary songwriter who balances artful and inventive melodicism with a dedication to humanitarian themes. Few 1960s folkies were able to write as colorfull...continue...

Country Joe & the Fish: Vanguard Visionaries

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-12

Tracks: The 'Fish' Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag; Death Sound Blues; Sing Sing Sing; Marijuana; Untitled Protest, An; Grace; Janis; Superbird (Tricky Dick); Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine; Masked M...
Artists: Country Joe & the Fish

While Country Joe & the Fish are a band difficult to define in a one-disc best-of collection: their lone hit "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die Rag" plays mostly as a dated novelty and belies the depth of ...continue...

Country Joe McDonald: Vanguard Visionaries

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-12

Tracks: Talkin' Dust Bowl; This Land Is Your Land; Fantasy; Sexist Pig; Ring of Fire; Sweet Marie; Call, The; Entertainment Is My Business; I'm on the Road Again; Six Days on the Road
Artists: Country Joe McDonald

David Wilcox: Vanguard Visionaries

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-12

Tracks: What You Whispered; Never Old Enough; This Tattoo; Guitar Shopping; Soul Song; Down Here; Start With the Ending; Rule Number One; Deeper Still; Inside of My Head, The
Artists: David Wilcox

This 2007 collection, an installment in Vanguard Records' well-selected VISIONARIES series, features songs from David Wilcox's two albums for the venerable label: UNDERNEATH and WHAT YOU WHISPERED. Th...continue...

Eric Andersen: Vanguard Visionaries

1 CD / Vanguard / 2007-06-12

Tracks: Violets of Dawn; Thirsty Boots; Close the Door Lightly When You Go; Come to My Bedside; Rambler's Lament; Boots of Blue; Dusty Box Car Wall; Song to J.C.B.; Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'; Broken H...
Artists: Eric Andersen

Though less widely known than folk-revival contemporaries like Joan Baez or Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen is the consummate folk singer-songwriter, with a rich vocal tone and a knack for evocative, heartfe...continue...