Retro Music Review | Oldies, Reissues and New Releases with a Retro Sound

Patsy Cline - Showcase / Sentimentally Yours (BGO; BGOCD798)

Country music legend Patsy Cline had the kind of talent that transcended musical boundaries. Her uncommon ability to be at once vulnerable and strong, to display breathtaking emotional fragility and impressive vocal power simultaneously, made her a hit on both the country and pop charts. With the reissue of Cline’s second and third LPs, Showcase and Sentimentally Yours, together on a single CD, the BGO label has created an amazing 24-track collection that is sure to delight devoted fans and casual listeners alike… READ MORE

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club - Cipher (Alternative Tentacles; Virus 383)

Every Slim Cessna’s Auto Club album represents a new and haunting vision of the American landscape. This country as seen through the eyes of Slim is a strange place indeed. Revival meetings and mason jugs and bullfrogs and highways being hacked to ribbons are set against a constant and curious chant, the drumming voice of the ignored and the dispossessed… READ MORE