Great Album Reviews: Folkways – The Original Vision

Album: Folkways: The Original VisionArtist: Woody Guthrie, Lead BellyGenre: FolkYear: 2005 When Moses Asch died, he left behind an astounding legacy of over 2,000 albums in the catalog of his Folkways Records label. For over 40 years, Asch had been releasing folk music from around the world, and his recordings of Woody Guthrie and Lead […]

Great Album Reviews: Beautiful Maladies (Tom Waits)

Album: Beautiful Maladies: The Island YearsArtist: Tom WaitsGenre: Folk, Singer/Songwriter, ClaptrapYear: 1998 In honor of Tom Waits’ new album Bad as Me, which comes out today, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at an earlier phase of his career. In the last few years, Tom Waits has somehow emerged as a […]