eMusic Archives: March 2009
A Broken Consort, Box of Birch…
Graceful, moody and delicate, A Broken Consort write songs for soundtrack… more »
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life…
A coming-of-age tale, a meditation on poverty, and a recounting of the ci… more »
Culture, Two Sevens Clash: The…
The millennial paranoia inspired by Y2K ultimately resembled a garden-var… more »
Various Artists, The Stuff Tha…
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of is subtitled The Dead Sea Scrolls of Re… more »
Blind Willie Johnson, Praise G…
If you're talking about gospel blues, you've got to talk about on… more »
Al Green, Gets Next To You…
Throughout the early sessions chronicled on his first Hi Records LP, Gree… more »
Al Green, The Belle Album…
Myriad real-life troubles shook Al Green and his soulful sound in the mid… more »
Peter Walker, Long Lost Tapes …
As you might have guessed from the record's title, these six Eastern-… more »
Al Green, Greatest Hits…
I remember it the way you remember any milestone: first kiss, first apart… more »
Al Green, I’m Still In L…
Al Green's second album of 1972 (Let's Stay Together came out onl… more »
Al Green, Livin’ For You…
Al Green's first four '70s albums — from Gets Next to You t… more »
Blake Bailey, Cheever
A fond but appropriately unflinching look at a gimlet-eyed observer The w… more »
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Ve…
In this era of eating locally, "back-to-the-earth" books are a dime a doz… more »
Al Green, Have A Good Time…
An oft-overlooked entry in the Al Green discography, 1976's Have A Go… more »
Al Green, Call Me
Al Green's 1972 masterpiece Call Me might inspire some listeners to t… more »
Al Green, Let’s Stay Tog…
In Robert Christgau's review of Al Green's 1972 album, Let's … more »
Gomez, A New Tide
Eleven years since winning Britain's prestigious Mercury Awards for t… more »
Al Green, Explores Your Mind…
By the time of 1974's oddly telepathic-sounding Al Green Explores You… more »
Joseph Heller, Catch-22…
A skewering war satire 50 years before Comedy Central Today, satirists li… more »
A Tale of Two Cults: the Flami…
Two old faves recently surfaced on eMusic, and I must say it's been a ple… more »
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Boo…
In the fairy tales of Neil Gaiman, children often cross the boundaries be… more »