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John Train is a Philadelphia quintet that is incrementally building an audience with quietly interesting songs with occasionally intriguing arrangements. LOOKS LIKE UP, their followup to 1999's COUNTRY STANDARD TIME, doesn't deviate much from their tried and true formula so that while there are no new surprises, there is nothing ...

During the 90's Reba recorded four albums that had some of her strongest material to date. 12 of those have made it unto this latest Greatest Hits collection. In addition there are three new songs on the album; the title track and "Myself Without You" both of which follow in ...

My first thought on hearing the opening bars of "Ginny Whitt's," the first track on Tom Adams's second CD, ADAMS COUNTY BANJO, was "Notice how his fingers never leave his hands!" Uh, the guy is fast. I mean lightning. Fortunately, he has more than speed going for him.Adams has been ...

This one at first blush frankly looked like a loser. A lot of what passes for kid's music tends to be pretty cutesy. Past projects which have taken contemporary artists and matched 'em up with childrens' songs have tended to result in the inducement of diabetic coma. I could name ...